Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 23:59:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Q] 2.2.5 bind release Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970925235637.14946F-100000@shell.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <199709260642.IAA09099@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
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On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, John Hay wrote: > > > > 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. > ---------------------------- That is a just a merge of some 4.9.6 fixes, not a complete import. 4.9.6 resolver does not use /etc/host.conf or /etc/hosts, yet the FreeBSD resolver does. The FreeBSD resolver is also capable of using NIS host maps. The FreeBSD resolver seems to similar to resolv+ with various other addons bolted on it (NIS host maps for one, as resolv+ as DNS-only). > John > -- > John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za > Tom
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