win: use WinDNS family of functions for DNS resolving about libuv HOT 4 OPEN

WinDNS functions seems superior to getaddrinfo

Superior how?

DnsQueryEx which does an asynchronous procedure call so it eliminates the need for thread pool

DnsQueryEx is only available on Windows 8 so would have to be feature-tested at runtime. It would also be good to double-check if it's really asynchronous and not just using the Windows thread pool.

Replacing GetAddrInfoW with DnsQuery_W doesn't seem compelling on its own but DnsQueryEx might be a good reason to switch. It should be 100% backwards compatible though.

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We dropped support for windows 8 when Microsoft ended support

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Superior how?

DnsQueryEx supports cancellation, already asynchronous through APC and it also returns TTL value (I'm not sure if GetAddrInfoW reports TTL too, though). Other than this variant, they're pretty similar I think.

I've also tried GetAddrInfoExW, though it takes OVERLAPPED, it returns nonzero when the aforementioned argument is given.

I actually want to take part in implementing it, I thought this might be a good first issue as well.

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The GetAddrInfoExW looks better, since it is in the existing ws2_32 library and seems to support passing an Event object via OVERLAPPED (which can be used with IOCP directly)

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