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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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