summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/src/or/dns.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorRoger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org>2005-06-11 05:31:17 +0000
committerRoger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org>2005-06-11 05:31:17 +0000
commitfcd0fc3364947071944cba0420d27cf267a3b146 (patch)
tree289418a85330d1db1eeff9f844ac56c69b688580 /src/or/dns.c
parent691265df0c5b7c0c9da78c7513fe2385665d9a55 (diff)
downloadtor-fcd0fc3364947071944cba0420d27cf267a3b146.tar.gz
tor-fcd0fc3364947071944cba0420d27cf267a3b146.zip
flesh out the source file descriptions for doxygen
svn:r4404
Diffstat (limited to 'src/or/dns.c')
-rw-r--r--src/or/dns.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/or/dns.c b/src/or/dns.c
index d2bb017631..807a71c7fd 100644
--- a/src/or/dns.c
+++ b/src/or/dns.c
@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@ const char dns_c_id[] = "$Id$";
/**
* \file dns.c
- * \brief Resolve hostnames in separate processes.
+ * \brief Implements a farm of 'DNS worker' threads or processes to
+ * perform DNS lookups for onion routers and cache the results.
+ * [This needs to be done in the background because of the lack of a
+ * good, ubiquitous asynchronous DNS implementation.]
**/
/* See http://elvin.dstc.com/ListArchive/elvin-dev/archive/2001/09/msg00027.html