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		ivlad on May 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Implement DNS in a Weekend Nope, Google’s quad eights is “recursive DNS server”. Resolver is usually a part of operating system (sometimes) implementing DNS client functionality and serving as a link between a userland library providing, say, getaddrinfo(), and DNS implementation. This one is even less than a resolver, it does not implement a library link. It’s a toy DNS client, implementing minimal functionality.

alfons_foobar on May 13, 2023 [–]

Quad8 is a recursive resolver.

You are referring to a system's local resolver (which is obviously also a resolver, so you are right on this regard).

But still, this project is _also_ a resolver (although obviously not a complete one, it's a learning project).

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