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Date:      Wed, 23 Aug 2000 02:08:59 +0900 (JST)
From:      Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org>
To:        n@nectar.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Testers wanted: nsswitch
Message-ID:  <20000823.020859.74674005.ume@mahoroba.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000819163017.A30595@hamlet.nectar.com>
References:  <20000819163017.A30595@hamlet.nectar.com>

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>>>>> On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 16:30:17 -0500
>>>>> "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> said:

n> I've made a port of NetBSD's nsswitch code.  This allows one to
n> configure various databases such as passwd(5) to use files, NIS, 
n> or Hesiod.

I like bringing nsswitch into FreeBSD.  It will reduce maintainance
cost around resolver related routins.
When I merged KAME effort around fixing DNS query order problem from
NetBSD, I was forced to work with nsswitch -> host.conf issue.

Your nsswith support in getaddrinfo.c is quite different from NetBSD's
one. (maybe name6.c, too?)  Why don't you simply bring the code from
NetBSD?
The origin of getadrinfo.c and name6.c is KAME, and basically these
files are same between NetBSD and FreeBSD except some OS depend part
such as reading host.conf.  We should keep close these files to NetBSD
as possible.

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Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan
ume@mahoroba.org  ume@bisd.hitachi.co.jp  ume@FreeBSD.org
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