Re: UDP/DNS in Emacs

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

> I wrote a simple DNS client for TCP some time ago, but I'm sure that
> seeing the code won't help you. :-)

:-)

> Oh, and DNS can use both UDP and TCP, so I guess a dns.el should use
> both, with the appropriate fallback UDP->TCP.

I'm concentrating on UDP for the time being...

> There was a library posted to gnu.emacs.sources recently for dealing
> with binary structures, it might be useful for unpacking DNS packets.

I've basically gotten dns.el to work, only I'm having the usual
problems with having bytes in the buffer remain bytes and not turning
into characters.  :-/

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