On Fri, Nov 1, 2013, at 13:11, John Thurston wrote:
On 11/1/2013 9:35 AM, Mark Felder wrote:
Is there any hope of getting xymon to compile against the system
provided c-ares, or is xymon always going to bundle it? Just seems like
it would be more efficient to use the system-provided c-ares if it's
there...
It's funny you bring this up right now. I am currently struggling with my pre-production xymon instance. The only way I seem able to get it to behave is to start xymonnet with --no-ares. When using c-ares, I routinely get hundreds of test failures due to inability to resolve
names.
How is the c-ares library supposed to be superior to my system's built-in resolver functions?
c-ares offers non-blocking asynchronous lookups, I believe