From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 1 10:40:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from damnhippie.dyndns.org (12-253-177-2.client.attbi.com [12.253.177.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEE6637B400 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 10:40:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.22.42.2] (peace.hippie.lan [172.22.42.2]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g51Heq6r058545 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 11:40:52 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.01 (1630) Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 11:40:53 -0600 Subject: Re: Broken IPv6 DNS servers (Was: Is gethostbyname2() reentrant?) From: Ian To: freebsd-hackers Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200205312254.g4VMrfvj058112@wartch.sapros.com> Mime-version: 1.0 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 On 05/31/02 16:53, Peter Haight wrote: > Yeah. I'm in the middle of the Mozilla code base as you probably remember, > trying to fix the problem of these bad DNS servers. I did complain to the > technical administrators for the ones that were giving me problems, but I've > only received form letter replies and they are still broken. > Have a look at ports/net/adns. I'm not sure it's an appropriate solution for mozilla in terms of the adns license, but the package itself seems pretty solid, I've used it for async lookups where I need good control over timeouts on multiple outstanding requests. The documentation (almost non-existant) sucks, but the code works. -- Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message