] more broadly than that, a full dns client-side api is
] needed. we drafted one a couple of years ago but couldn't
] find the funding for it. c and c programmers should
] have the same high level access to the dns protocol that
] perl programmers have (through the excellent Net::DNS
] module).

I finally pinged the IETF DNS WG about resolver API foo that
I've been whining about for years. Here's Vixie's initial reply.