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Date:      Fri, 01 May 1998 17:21:28 -0400
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Studded <Studded@san.rr.com>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: bind-8 import 
Message-ID:  <5294.894057688@gjp.erols.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 May 1998 12:29:05 PDT." <354A2281.214A23E2@san.rr.com> 

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Studded wrote in message ID
<354A2281.214A23E2@san.rr.com>:

>         Absolutely no support exists for editing the system's shared
>         libraries to update the resolver.  If you want to do that you
>         probably want to look at BIND Version 4 (see
> http://www.isc.org/isc/)
>         or wait a while or help out a lot.  This means you probably do
> not
>         want to install the library or include files into /usr/lib or
>         /usr/include, and this kit helpfully puts everything into
>         /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include for that reason among
> others.

That looks more like a warning for people who are running without the
source code to their shared libraries (e.g. sunos/solaris). There was
a kit inside the bind4.9.x code tree that allowed you to replace the
resolver inside libc with the one from the bind sources (at least for
sunos4.1.x, if not others). My reading of the above is that 8.x doesn't
have that support anymore (probably too many changes) and it shouldn't
affect us (unless we suddenly have stopped giving sources out :) )

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
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