[reSIProcate] Re: Caching Control

[Robert Sparks]

agreed.

I'm ok with the presence of the layer being a ./configure option for now
if that's the path of least resistance.

In the long run, I'd like it to be something you control at runtime.

RjS

On Mar 15, 2005, at 12:41 PM, Alan Hawrylyshen wrote:

>
> On Mar 10, 2005, at 17.24, derek wrote:
>
>> The caching will run on top of DnsInterface&ExternalDns, which is the
>> abstraction that hides ares.  It won't even know /etc/hosts exists; I 
>> think
>> we'll have to fix ares.
>>
>> --Derek
>
> Whatever the solution we arrive at for the Cache and Blacklisting (or 
> weighting), the abstraction MUST support a NULL Cache implementation 
> (which should be done just as a POC) so people who don't want caching 
> can still compile the stack.
> We definately want to cleanly separate the cache from the weighting it 
> at all possible, otherwise we're getting into a very complicate mess 
> potentially.
>
> Thoughts?
> Alan
>
> a l a n a t j a s o m i d o t c o m