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Re: [ITP] bind-9.6.0-1
On Jan 21 11:58, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Ok, but the Cygwin resolver lib also works without this file because the
> > nameserver information can be (and is) fetched from Windows. Would it
> > be feasible to use the same method as the resolver lib so that we don't
> > have two libs using different methods? The resolver lib uses
> > /etc/resolv.conf, but falls back to calling the Windows function
> > GetNetworkParam to fetch this information if the resolve.conf file
> > doesn't exist(*).
>
> BIND does not use libresolv/minires, it uses its own code (in liblwres)
> for parsing /etc/resolv.conf and doing the actual resolver operations.
Well, yes. That's why I'm asking the above question.
Corinna
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