Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 19:10:46 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Dan Larsson <dl@tyfon.net>, FreeBSD Stable List <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BIND-9.x Message-ID: <20010703191046.E23688@mail.webmonster.de> In-Reply-To: <20010702195205.B26764@walton.maths.tcd.ie>; from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie on Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 07:52:05PM %2B0100 References: <20010702143109.K8107-100000@hq1.tyfon.net> <20010702175009.E79697@mail.webmonster.de> <20010702195205.B26764@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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--o0ZfoUVt4BxPQnbU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable David Malone(dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie)@2001.07.02 19:52:05 +0000: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:50:09PM +0200, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: > > Dan Larsson(dl@tyfon.net)@2001.07.02 14:33:33 +0000: > > > What are the plans regarding updating to BIND version 9 > >=20 > > bind should be made a port, IMHO, and take it's way out of the base > > system, being replaced by an asynchronous resolver library (there are > > many). >=20 > Unless I'm mistaken, BIND has nothing to do with the resolver > library in FreeBSD. The resolver library is part of libc > (/usr/src/lib/libc/net/res_*). BIND is only used to provide the > name server and associated tools (I don't think libbind is installed > at all) . res_* _are_ the bind api. nonetheless, the files are quite original, see res_mkquery.c for example... there are a lot of client deps btw... dig, host,... and it brings you wonderful string formatting and other quirks i do not have the stamina for to dig in further. from what i can see, there might be an overflow possibility in host.c in the name formatting, but i am really not the c wizard here so someone into security auditing might check this one out ;-) >=20 > (Not that this really changes anything about bind should be a port > or if an asynchronous resolver library should be added to the base > system.) *grin* from my releasebuilder machine /etc/make.conf: NO_BIND=3Dtrue NO_SENDMAIL=3Dtrue i guess this stands for itself=20 /k --=20 > If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above=20 > ask your parents or an adult to help you. =20 KR433/KR11-RIPE -- WebMonster Community Founder -- nGENn GmbH Senior Techie http://www.webmonster.de/ -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ -- http://www.ngenn.n= et/ karsten&rohrbach.de -- alpha&ngenn.net -- alpha&scene.org -- catch@spam.de GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 B= F46 Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 1= 0x --o0ZfoUVt4BxPQnbU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7QfyVM0BPTilkv0YRAq/EAKCWsOUjf18R8IcPqJGtQ6JLkLhzjwCfYMEl YpPGpgUo+2jFHY+7iYN+XME= =b7fG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --o0ZfoUVt4BxPQnbU-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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