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Date:      Wed, 23 Sep 1998 08:50:00 +0200
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        tlambert@primenet.com
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DNS in CURRENT
Message-ID:  <24083.906533400@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Sep 1998 06:31:17 %2B0000 (GMT)"
References:  <199809230631.XAA13219@usr09.primenet.com>

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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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