The latest version of hsdns-cache is 1.0.4-0.

hsdns-cache

Version 1.0.0 revision 0 uploaded by VladimirShabanov.

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Synopsis
Caching asynchronous DNS resolver.
Description

Caching asynchronous DNS resolver built on top of GNU ADNS http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/.

  • Resolves several IP addresses for one host (if available) in round-robin fashion.

  • Limits number of parallel requests (so DNS resolving continues to work even under heavy load).

  • Errors are cached too (for one minute).

  • Handles CNAMEs (hsdns returns error for them).

This cache is tested in a long running web-crawler (used in http://bazqux.com) so it should be safe to use it in real world applications.

Author
Vladimir Shabanov <vshabanoff@gmail.com>
Bug reports
n/a
Category
Network
Copyright
Vladimir Shabanov 2013
Homepage
https://github.com/vshabanov/hsdns-cache
Maintainer
Vladimir Shabanov <vshabanoff@gmail.com>
Package URL
n/a
Stability
n/a

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