multi-protocol support of queryperf

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Tue Jul 9 16:31:06 UTC 2002


At 12:04 PM 7/9/02, Brian Wellington wrote:
>On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Danny Mayer wrote:
>
> > >This will break on platforms that don't have getaddrinfo().  The right
> > >solution might be to use bind9_getaddresses() from libbind9, or to modify
> > >configure to check for getaddrinfo() and use gethostbyname() otherwise.
> >
> > Using libbind9 will break it for me on Windows since I was forced to go
> > back to BIND 8 and build it there since I don't have a libbind for Windows
>
>I said libbind9, not libbind.  libbind9 is a small library that currently
>only contains a config file checker and a function to portably get
>addresses by name using either getaddrinfo() or gethostbyname().  It's not
>in bind 8.

That's exactly what I said.  I'm using libbind from BIND 8, but then to add
libbind9 in addition would cause me all sorts of additional grief to get the
two libraries together.

Danny



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