From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28416 invoked by alias); 21 Jan 2009 18:24:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 28406 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Jan 2009 18:24:35 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:24:31 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id C543B6D4185; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:24:20 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:24:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ITP] bind-9.6.0-1 Message-ID: <20090121182420.GN20104@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <4973A7A8.9020301@users.sourceforge.net> <20090121170810.GK20104@calimero.vinschen.de> <4977594F.3060202@users.sourceforge.net> <20090121173750.GL20104@calimero.vinschen.de> <49776228.4070903@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49776228.4070903@users.sourceforge.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-01/txt/msg00095.txt.bz2 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat