Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 12:00:04 -0700 (PDT) From: woods@zeus.leitch.com (Greg A. Woods) To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/6121: gethostbyname(3) no longer returns NO_DATA for MX records Message-ID: <199804071900.MAA15731@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/6121; it has been noted by GNATS. From: woods@zeus.leitch.com (Greg A. Woods) To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: bin/6121: gethostbyname(3) no longer returns NO_DATA for MX records Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 14:54:16 -0400 (EDT) [ On Thu, April 2, 1998 at 18:46:37 (-0800), Dan Busarow wrote: ] > Subject: Re: bin/6121: gethostbyname(3) no longer returns NO_DATA for MX records > > On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > The resolver library in the BIND-4.9.6 does return NO_DATA as it > > should (must, actually), but both FreeBSD's and NetBSD's resolvers are > > broken in this respect (and arguably in some other respects too! ;-). > > OK, so what changed in the libc resolver code between 2.1.5 and now? It would seem that the BIND 4.9.6 resolver code has been merged into FreeBSD-current and 2.2.x-stable, but obviously they didn't do it 100% > Thanks for the suggestion, that did get me going. But it would > really be nice to have libc do the job correctly :) I agree, but I've more or less given up on the *BSD's getting the resolver to work correctly, esp. in face of the fact that they are trying to satisfy many conflicting goals, including the ancient file access, NIS access, etc., as well as DNS lookups, all with the same API. -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 443-1734 VE3TCP <gwoods@acm.org> <robohack!woods> Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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