Re: [lwip-users] dns: remember multiple IP addresses patch

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On 21.02.2018 20:22, Jan Menzel wrote:
> > If you want your client application to load-balance although the locally
> > cached DNS entry has expired, I think a better approach would be to
> > actually return all available IPs to the client and let it chose one
> > (i.e. implement the random algorithm in your application). That way,
> > 'gethostbyname' etc. could return all entries as well.
> Yes, this would be an option. I rejected this approach because it breaks
> the api.

Yes, that's why it hasn't been changed, yet. Maybe we could add an 
additional function that returns all cached addresses from the local 
cache array...  This might be sped up by passing in the ip_addr_t 
pointer form the 'found' callback, which could be used to calculate back 
the entry index.

Simon