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Date:      Fri, 26 Sep 1997 08:42:26 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
To:        tom@uniserve.com (Tom)
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [Q] 2.2.5 bind release
Message-ID:  <199709260642.IAA09099@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970925231651.14946B-100000@shell.uniserve.com> from Tom at "Sep 25, 97 11:19:11 pm"

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> > 
> > > 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.
----------------------------

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za



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