[Xymon] c-ares

[Mark Felder]

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