From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 6 22:52:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25C5137B403 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 22:52:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.136.130.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.136.130]) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA03282; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 22:52:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B6F825E.341B4AF2@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 22:53:34 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Litvin Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gethostbyXXXX_r() References: <200108050818.f758IjT60048@unknown.whichever.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alexander Litvin wrote: > As for bind9 -- this has AFAIK totally rewritten resolver, > which doesn't even resemble bind8. IMHO, to incorporate > it into FreeBSD might take a tremendous effort. Not really. Just import it on a vendor branch as /usr/src/lib/libresolv, and then things that want it can link to it, no problem. Once everything is converted over, then it can be diked out of libc. Pretty straight forward... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message