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From: Damien Doligez <Damien.Doligez@inria.fr>
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Subject: Re:  multi-threaded udp resolver
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>From: Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>

>While ocaml provides appropriate udp send/receive functions, the best
>mechanism for understanding the structure of dns packets is unknown to
>me.

What you describe looks like a parsing problem to me.  I would try to
use ocamlyacc or stream parsers if I had to solve your problem.  But
I've never done anything like that, so I can't guarantee it's really
the best way to do it.

-- Damien