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> The good thing about this is that, while the daemon is capable
> of fielding multiple outstanding requests, the libresolv that
> is part of libc is not.
> 
> Oh, wait, that's not a good thing...
> 
> I believe that ELF is a nice opportunity for us to seperate the
> resolver functions out of libc into libresolv, allowing us a
> better opportunity to track bind as a vendor branch from ISC.

I like this in principle, but: Wouldn't this mean that programs need to
explicitly link with -lresolv for gethostbyname() to work? If so, I'm
not sure that's such a good idea in practice.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no

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