UDP question

[Dar Scott]

On Nov 11, 2006, at 6:27 AM, Shao Sean wrote:

> I know when I wrote the library to get the MX records from a DNS  
> server, using UDP, I had to follow these steps in the client in  
> order to get the server's reply
>
> - open the datagram socket to the server (no message callback)
> - read from the datagram socket with a message callback
> - write to the datagram socket (no message callback)

I have some stacks that do that.  And that makes sense.  But when I  
reported some bugs in that method, Scott Raney said that sockets were  
never intended to work that way.
Dar