Re: [hylafax-users] Enterprise Hylafax

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Thursday, September 07, 2000, at 1:23:52 AM, Darren Nickerson wrote:
>   Jay> Will the client(s) not try more than once if they get more than one A
>   Jay> record back from the nslookup?  If not, this seems like an easy
>   Jay> feature to add...

> The client does not run 'nslookup', rather it doed a DNS lookup, which returns
> a single A RR, at random. You don't get two answers - that's the whole point.

"the nslookup".  Yes, I know it doesn't run the binary, it uses
gethostbyname.  I simply didn't remember whether that system call
would return more than one A record or not, and the manpage is not
especially informative on that part... and I didn't think the details
were fodder for -users.

Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth                                                jra@baylink.com
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