README (772B)
1 net::dial provides a single function to facilitate the establishment of outgoing 2 network connections. It handles port selection, address parsing, protocol and 3 service lookup, DNS lookup (via /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, etc), SRV record 4 resolution, and so on. See [[dial]] for details. 5 6 Modules implementing their own network protocols are also able to add themselves 7 to the protocol and service registry. The protocol registry is used for 8 transport-level protocols (such as TCP) and is managed via [[registerproto]]; 9 the service registry is used for application-level protocols (such as SSH) and 10 is managed via [[registersvc]]. 11 12 Some useful functions for IP-related protocols to interpret the "addr" parameter 13 of the dial function are also provided, namely [[resolve]].