looking up rr.com associated ptr and a records (problem?)

Brian Wellington Brian.Wellington at nominum.com
Tue Oct 2 04:18:08 UTC 2001


On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Paul A Vixie wrote:

> > 	Where is this more recent version of host,
>
> $bind8/contrib/host/
>
> > and how can we get it incorporated into BIND?
>
> someone would have to port it to the port_before.h / port_after.h logic used
> in the rest of bind8.  right now it has its own idea of how to build in
> multiple environments.
>
> note that bind9 uses autoconf so that it will be more compatible with the
> modern era.  i do not expect to convert bind8 to autoconf, however.

It uses the res_ functions, which don't exist in bind 9 (unless the bind 8
compatibility library is built), so it would be significantly more
difficult to port to bind 9.

Brian



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