On 1/13/06, Tompa <tompa1969@yahoo.com> wrote:
Christopher Kohlhoff <chris <at> kohlhoff.com> writes:
Using gethostbyname on Windows, for example, also resolves NetBIOS names, and asio should provide identical behaviour to the platform's own host resolution functions.
Please take note that the gethostbyname function has been deprecated by the introduction of the getaddrinfo function on the Windows platform!
I believe getaddrinfo is the preferred method on all IPv6-capable platforms. The code in the boost-review version of asio is using gethostby{name|addr} but I think this part of the code may be re-worked in light of various threads I've seen on this list. I have not checked into your code, but what is Asio's default mechanism for
resolving hostnames - will it spawn and asynchronously use a new thread or will it resolve the hostname synchronously in main thread?
The asio host_resolver can be used either synchronously or asynchronously. In the latter case, resolver calls are handled by a background thread. -- Caleb Epstein caleb dot epstein at gmail dot com