[DGD] Port question

[Felix A. Croes]

Jay Shaffstall <jshaffst at netwalk.com> wrote:

>[...]
> Now, if I can risk a question outside of my own area of expertise (if I'd 
> had any interest in network programming I'd probably be one of those 
> writing my own mud from scratch, and not getting nearly as far as I have by 
> using DGD), why does DGD need to make a connection to a DNS server?  It is 
> solely for resolving ip names for the ip_name kfun, or is there some other 
> need?

DGD will try to resolve an IP name as soon as a connection is opened, even
if the mudlib does not use query_ip_name().  query_ip_name() returns the
cached result.  That is the only use that DGD has for the name server.

Regards,
Dworkin
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