From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 25 23:43:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA13505 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 23:43:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA13486 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 23:43:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA09099; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 08:42:27 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199709260642.IAA09099@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: [Q] 2.2.5 bind release In-Reply-To: from Tom at "Sep 25, 97 11:19:11 pm" To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 08:42:26 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > > 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