Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/11/16/22:33:55
Hi,
I am working to extend the functionality of
SaveMyModem and am considering inclusion of a cool
utility known as "rblcheck". It is tiny but powerful.
Basically, what rblcheck does is compare the received:
IP address from a suspect message against a series of
databases of known spammers in the "realtime blackhole
list" type servers. (ie, spamhaus.org)
Rblcheck seemed simple enough to port but then I
discovered that Cygwin does not support the res_query
function. There is a neat package available called
"minires" that does provide this and other
capabilities to cygwin.
Long story short, the authors interceded and now there
is a Win32 version of rblcheck available for everyone
to enjoy...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rblcheck
So I would like to know why is not minires a part of
cygwin? There are numerous packages ported to cygwin
using it, if I go by the cygwin mailing list. Is it
just the lack of someone to package it or is it a
policy issue?
minires is a great package and makes porting of
programs that require "resolv" functions possible.
Your help in explaining this is appreciated. Thank
you.
Andrew Lynch
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