Developing against libbind

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Sun Jul 6 23:21:14 UTC 2008


> Hi,
> 
> I apologise if this is the wrong place for this type of question, but 
> I'm developing an application that needs to do DNS lookups, and I cannot 
> find any documentation about how to use libbind.  I have build bind 
> 9.5.0 with --enable-libbind and cannot find anything helpful (except the 
> header files) in the build.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the direction of any documentation available 
> showing how to use the Bind library to do DNS lookups from a C application?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andy

	Most UNIX boxes already have most of the man pages.  You can
	also just down load the documentation tar ball from BIND 8.
	"libbind" is from BIND 8.

	"man resolver" will get you most of the man pages.

	Mark
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