From: Anastasia Gornostaeva <ermine@ermine.pp.ru>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] dns client
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:17:08 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030925161708.GA36499@ermine.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030925155119.GA14079@redhat.com>
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:51:19PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:35:29PM +0400, Anastasia Gornostaeva wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > Is there any dns client written on Ocaml? At least i want to get records with
> > specified types such as A, NS, MX, etc.
> > I cannot write a wrapper to C library, i'm afraid about GC problems.
>
> If you really don't want to write a wrapper, how about using an
> external program, eg:
>
> let chan = Unix.open_process_in "host -t mx ibm.com"
> (* some code to parse the 7th field of the response - eg. using Pcre *)
Well, it is an interesting solution. but what about portability?
I saw, Erlang/OTP has more nice solution - a module inet_res that allows some
kinda of my requests above.
> However writing C wrappers couldn't really be much simpler with OCaml
> (compare it to Perl or Java some time!).
I know, I ask here for ready solutions :)
ermine
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-25 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-25 15:35 Anastasia Gornostaeva
2003-09-25 15:51 ` Richard Jones
2003-09-25 16:17 ` Anastasia Gornostaeva [this message]
2003-09-25 17:15 ` Richard Jones
2003-09-25 16:18 ` Eric C. Cooper
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