On Fri, 12 Apr 2013, David Strauss wrote:

> Meanwhile, cURL has built-in DNS lookup, connection pool management, and
> connection re-establishment when reusing a persistent connection fails. Our
> ideal would be extending the DNS record awareness into the retry and pool
> logic to go from (1) today's ability to reconnect to a single IP to (2)
> ability to reconnect using other IPs listed in a DNS lookup, possibly using
> weights.

Right, it would certainly make a lot of sense to store more than one IP in the
DNS cache so that re-connections can continue on other IP addresses. And with
SRV etc, having the weights in there as well would also make sense, even if I
suspect it may be hard to make good use of them.

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