From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24082 invoked by alias); 21 Jan 2009 17:20:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 24072 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Jan 2009 17:20:24 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (HELO an-out-0708.google.com) (209.85.132.247) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:20:18 +0000 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c2so195566anc.38 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:20:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.153.7 with SMTP id a7mr160319qbe.110.1232558415961; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:20:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.100? (S0106001346f94b85.wp.shawcable.net [24.76.249.6]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 25sm15390190qbw.23.2009.01.21.09.20.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:20:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4977594F.3060202@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:20:00 -0000 From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ITP] bind-9.6.0-1 References: <4973A7A8.9020301@users.sourceforge.net> <20090121170810.GK20104@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20090121170810.GK20104@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00091.txt.bz2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > And here's another problem, Yaakov. > > Why does the bind package require an /etc/resolv.conf file? Isn't that > used only by the resolver lib? And the resolver lib is part of Cygwin > 1.7 anyway, or in the minires package for Cygwin 1.5. Minires/Cygwin 1.7 > don't need a resolv.conf file, so why does bind?!? I was attempting to avoid a FAQ. BIND is a DNS suite, and it needs to know the address of a nameserver in order to do lookups. The usage of /etc/resolv.conf is well documented in both the manpages and the online manual. Yaakov -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkl3WU4ACgkQpiWmPGlmQSNXyQCfXEFPRiLslEh0fwggqgZo7RKO jNoAnAgTDGVHiR4Bgoavl5EEaYpO215X =RCY6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----