From owner-freebsd-net Wed Nov 10 14:47:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8292B14DCA for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:47:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA28991; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:14:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:14:10 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: G Muthukumar Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BIND 8.2.x - IRS, newer resolver functions In-Reply-To: <199911101356.TAA03656@wipro.wipsys.sequent.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org We should wait for BIND9, which will have quite a big change in resolver interface (asynchronous support, threading, DNSsec, etc). Jan 31 is the date for the beta release. On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, G Muthukumar wrote: > Hi all, > > With the availability of BIND 8.2.x, is there any plan of integrating > the newer resolver functions (e.g.: res_nquery as against the deprecated > res_query) & name resolution through IRS (instead of/in addition to > /etc/host.conf) into the standard library? > > If this is not considered due to some valid reasons, would it be > possible for me to get those reasons? Any pointers are also welcome. > > Thanks, > Muthu > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message