[or-cvs] a gpl async dns lib is not free enough.

arma at seul.org arma at seul.org
Thu Sep 29 18:57:15 UTC 2005


Update of /home2/or/cvsroot/website
In directory moria:/home/arma/work/onion/cvs/website

Modified Files:
	volunteer.html 
Log Message:
a gpl async dns lib is not free enough.


Index: volunteer.html
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RCS file: /home2/or/cvsroot/website/volunteer.html,v
retrieving revision 1.27
retrieving revision 1.28
diff -u -d -r1.27 -r1.28
--- volunteer.html	24 Sep 2005 23:38:04 -0000	1.27
+++ volunteer.html	29 Sep 2005 18:57:13 -0000	1.28
@@ -180,7 +180,8 @@
 resolving a query --- so it requires its own thread or process. So Tor
 is forced to spawn many separate DNS "worker" threads. There are some
 asynchronous DNS libraries out there, but historically they are buggy and
-abandoned. Are any of them stable, fast, clean, and free software? If so
+abandoned. Are any of them stable, fast, clean, and free software? (To
+be clear, it needs to be more free than GPL.) If so
 (or if we can make that so), we should integrate them into Tor. See <a
 href="http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Sep-2005/msg00001.html">Agl's
 post</a> for one potential approach.</li>



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