Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 08:42:26 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Q] 2.2.5 bind release Message-ID: <199709260642.IAA09099@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970925231651.14946B-100000@shell.uniserve.com> from Tom at "Sep 25, 97 11:19:11 pm"
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> > > > > Will 2.2.5 ship with the 4.9.6 or 8.1.1 BIND release? > > > > I'm 99.9% sure it'll be 4.9.6. 8.1.1 has the strongest nameserver but its > > resolver library is sorely lacking and would probably cause many packages > > to break. > > Has FreeBSD ever use the BIND resolver library? It seems to me that the > FreeBSD resolver is whole mix of different things, and is not 4.9.6 > either. > While FreeBSD does not have a seperate resolver library, the resolver code in libc does come from bind. Here is a piece of the cvs log of src/lib/libc/net/gethostbydns.c ---------------------------- revision 1.22 date: 1997/06/27 08:22:01; author: peter; state: Exp; lines: +25 -9 Merge in bind-4.9.6 resolver changes. Note that they resolve the overflow problem differently. ---------------------------- John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za
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