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Diffstat (limited to 'src/or/dns.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/or/dns.c | 5 |
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 |