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Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 23:07:44 -0500
From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: erik quanstrom <quanstro@speakeasy.net>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ndb and FQDNs.
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> well unless russ gets too mad at me, i intend to get the dns stuff going.
> unfortunately, the connection service stuff looks a little too far out
> there for unix.

i got dns running okay last night.  converting it to
use libthread will take a little effort, but a single-threaded
one basically just works.

what amazes me about having dns running on unix is
that in plan9port rfork(RFMEM|RFPROC) returns -1,
and dns actually copes gracefully and still functions.

russ