Reproposed F19 Feature: Fix Network Name Resolution [Was: DualstackNetworking]

[Nick Jones]

On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 10:11 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> As the Feature was renamed and the content of Feature has been extended
> as requested by FESCo, re-announcing it to the community for re-review.
>
> See https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/986
>
> = Features/Fix Network Name Resolution =
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FixNetworkNameResolution
>
> * Detailed description
> Currently the getaddrinfo() function doesn't work as it was desinged.
> Many of its features are buggy and cannot be used without extensive
> workarounds. Many software packages are using getaddrinfo() with such
> workarounds. Many can trigger its failures. And many packages that don't
> use getaddrinfo() will be ported in the near future.
>

One feature I would like to see added to future glibc, is a fully 
asynchronous version of getaddrinfo, and also getnameinfo.

Asynchronous for non filesystem fds at least.

The glibc maintainers don't seem to be against this idea and I am 
willing to put time into design and implementation.

I have a number of high level ideas for this project that I would like 
to have documented as starting points.  I am not a fedora community 
member, so someone will need to help me raise bugzillas and paste my 
notes on the wiki.

   Nick