BIND9 and export libraries

Ambarisha B b.ambarisha at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 05:24:18 UTC 2012


Thanks for the clarification

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Evan Hunt <each at isc.org> wrote:
>> What are the differences between BIND9 libraries and bind export
>> libraries?
>
> The export versions of the libraries omit code that that's tightly-bound
> with named, and allow the use of application-supplied implementations for
> things like the memory and task and timer subsystems instead of the
> BIND-specific implementations.
>
>> Are they compatible with each other, in other words, will
>> dhcp work with BIND9 libraries(I find not)?
>
> No, they aren't compatible.  I really want to fix that someday.
>
>> What is the best way to have both BIND9 and dhcp?
>
> The best way right now is to link either BIND 9 or DHCP statically,
> or use a different library path for each one, so the conflicting libdns
> and libisc files don't step on each other.
>
> --
> Evan Hunt -- each at isc.org
> Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.


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