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Re: Fwd: Re: DNS server LaMaraDNS is running on cygwin


What about the BDS libresolv ?

"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
> 
> Hallo Christopher,
> 
> Am 2001-11-21 um 04:15 schriebst du:
> 
> >>I have successful compiled ?LaMaraDNS! ( http://www.maradns.org/ )
> >>?LaMaraDNS! is an alpha-quality authoritative and recursive (caching)
> >>DNS server.
> 
> > Cool.  Does this provide us with libresolv.a, too?
> 
> Nope, I don't think so.
> 
> But there are alternative client libraries, aka 'stub resolver' like
> 'ares':
> ftp://athena-dist.mit.edu/pub/ATHENA/ares/ which includes two
> executables, 'adig' and 'ahost' as examples how to write interfaces and
> 'adns':
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/ which includes three
> executables 'adnslogres', 'adnsresfilter', 'adnshost' .
> 
> Both are building OOTB and provide a similar interface as libresolv.
> 
> I have a version of 'ares' up at my site:
> http://timtowtdi.topcities.com/cygwin/ares/
> 
> I have also a modified standalone libresolv version taken from ZMailer
> which was taken from bind-4.9.4-REL/res/ but this needs some sanitizing.

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