nodejs / nodejs/undici

Balanced Pool DNS lookup

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Description

It would be useful if balanced pool would do a dns lookup on non ip upstreams to loadbalance between all ips in the dns record.

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are identified in the issue. Start by locating the balanced pool implementation and its handling of non-IP upstreams, then define tests for DNS records containing multiple IPs; done means requests can be load-balanced across those addresses.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript, node.js
Domain
networking
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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