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On Sunday, August 12, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Rich Felker wrote:
> Any thought on the pros and cons of these or other appraches?
> 

This sounds like it should be a feature of the whole 'new platform' suggestion you made on this list earlier, which I'd still like to see gain some traction and definition.

If it is a locally running daemon that resolves queries to some specified format - what would be the fallback in case that daemon is not running or fails to launch?

JH