doc: revise text in dns module documentation introduction · nodejs/node@47ea306 · GitHub

nodejs / node Public

• Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings
• Fork 36.6k
• Star 120k

• Code
• Issues 637
• Pull requests 759
• Actions
• Projects
• Security and quality
• Insights

Additional navigation options

Commit 47ea306

Browse filesBrowse the repository at this point in the historyBrowse files

Trott

authored and

codebytere

committed

doc: revise text in dns module documentation introduction

PR-URL: #33986 Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>

1 parent f29f77f commit 47ea306
Copy full SHA for 47ea306

1 file changed

+4-6Lines changed: 4 additions & 6 deletions

File tree

Expand file treeCollapse file tree

Open diff view settings

Filter options

• doc/api
  • dns.md

Expand file treeCollapse file tree

Open diff view settings

Collapse file

‎doc/api/dns.md‎

Copy file name to clipboardExpand all lines: doc/api/dns.md

+4-6Lines changed: 4 additions & 6 deletions

• Display the source diff
• Display the rich diff

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
@@ -10,9 +10,8 @@ addresses of host names.
10	10	Although named for the [Domain Name System (DNS)][], it does not always use the
11	11	DNS protocol for lookups. [`dns.lookup()`][] uses the operating system
12	12	facilities to perform name resolution. It may not need to perform any network
13		- communication. Developers looking to perform name resolution in the same way
14		- that other applications on the same operating system behave should use
15		- [`dns.lookup()`][].
	13	+ communication. To perform name resolution the way other applications on the same
	14	+ system do, use [`dns.lookup()`][].
16	15
17	16	```js
18	17	const dns = require('dns');
@@ -26,9 +25,8 @@ dns.lookup('example.org', (err, address, family) => {
26	25	All other functions in the `dns` module connect to an actual DNS server to
27	26	perform name resolution. They will always use the network to perform DNS
28	27	queries. These functions do not use the same set of configuration files used by
29		- [`dns.lookup()`][] (e.g. `/etc/hosts`). These functions should be used by
30		- developers who do not want to use the underlying operating system's
31		- facilities for name resolution, and instead want to always perform DNS queries.
	28	+ [`dns.lookup()`][] (e.g. `/etc/hosts`). Use these functions to always perform
	29	+ DNS queries, bypassing other name-resolution facilities.
32	30
33	31	```js
34	32	const dns = require('dns');

0 commit comments

Comments

0 (0)