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Accept hostnames for tcp:, tcp-listen:, udp:, udp-listen: #56

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pub fn resolve_addr(
addr_str: &str,
) -> impl Future<Item = SocketAddr, Error = Box<dyn std::error::Error + 'static>> {
// TODO: resolve asynchronously
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Is it really needed to be resolved at connecting time, not just once at argument parsing time?

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I think it is: when running websocat as a daemon, it shouldn’t need to be restarted just because a remote DNS name changed. Additionally, one might want to point websocat at a service using DNS load balancing.

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Tardiness in DNS reply may not only delay establishing a new connection, but also suspend all unrelated neighbour connections - websocat is mostly single-threaded.

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Yeah, until we get async DNS, that’s a tradeoff. But this design allows the user to make that tradeoff. They can always choose to provide an IP address, or to install a local caching resolver (which will do the job much better than we would—sharing the cache between all apps on the system, respecting TTLs, and so on).

.to_socket_addrs()
.and_then(|mut addrs| {
addrs
.next()
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That would be a welcome extension.

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vi commented Sep 25, 2019

Note: I remember doing similar change (but more elaborate, supporting multiple addresses and fast fallback) in "websocket_lowlevel" branch where websocat 2.0 is cooking.

Maybe it's worth backporting it to websocat 1...

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