adns is looking plausible

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Eric!

On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 08:19:45 -0400
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> I haven't looked at the code itself yet, but from reading the C
> header file and the website, adns is looking like a plausible
> replacement for our homebrew async-DNS.  

Gentoo has been slowly moving from adns to c-ares.  For example
wireshark on Gentoo no longer uses adns, but uses c-ares.

	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513982

Gentoo curl also uses c-ares.  I could not find any Gentoo packages
that still use adns, it used to be common.

There is confusion in that Gentoo co-opted the 'adns' keyword form
libadns to c-ares.  

c-ares is MIT licensed and is here:

	http://c-ares.haxx.se/

	"C89 compatibility, MIT licensed, builds for and runs on POSIX,
	Windows, Netware, Android and many more operating systems."

RGDS
GARY
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