[ldns-users] Can ldns be used asynchronously?

[McCann Peter-A001034]

W.C.A. Wijngaards wrote:
> Not unless you code it yourself.  Libunbound
> http://unbound.net/documentation/libunbound-tutorial-4.html can do
> asynchronous queries.  


Thank you, Wouter.  I might switch to using libunbound.

A question, though: I note that a call to ub_ctx_async
sets whether to spawn a thread or fork a process.  But,
why do I have to do either?  It seems like the file
descriptor returned from ub_ctx_fd could be the UDP
socket on which the library is waiting for a response
packet.  In that case, a call to ub_process would both
read this data from the socket and perform any other
processing that might be necessary.  But, I guess you
would also need to return a timeout value that the
application would need to respect by calling ub_process
at that time in case no response was received.

I am just a little concerned about the overhead of
spawning a thread for each lookup.

-Pete