Re: [Monotone-devel] Failure to connect to IPV6 server

[Stephen Leake]

Zack Weinberg <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Jack Lloyd <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 03:59:06PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>>> The problem here is that we are using an ancient networking library
>>> (netxx) that hasn't been updated since 2005 or something like that,
>>> and has no IPv6 support.
>>>
>>> We need a new networking library.  Unfortunately, I don't know if
>>> there *is* a good low-level async networking library that meets all
>>> our requirements.
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, how does asio fall down in this context?
>
> Well, it might not, tbh - it just exceeded my pain threshold :)  The
> problem I was having was, in asio a network socket, a local domain
> socket, and an anonymous pipe are all different static types, but
> monotone wants to treat them identically, so a big dynamically typed
> wrapper was necessary and writing it was too much work.  

We now have a big dynamically typed wrapper in the netsync stuff, so
this may not be so bad anymore.

> Also it may have reimplemented the DNS client rather than calling
> getaddrinfo, which is not sysadmin-friendly.

That is certainly odd.

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