Asynchronous address resolution in winsock?
Looking into asynchronous address resolution in winsock it seems that the only two options are either to use the blocking gethostbyname on a seperate thread, or use WSAAsyncGetHostByName . The latter is designed for some reason to work with window messages, instead of overlapped operations and completion ports/routines. Is there any version of gethostbyname that works asynchronously with overlapped operations in a similiar manner to the rest of the winsock API? Unfortunately there isn't at present, although GetAddrInfoEx() has placeholders for all the right things for async operation via all