Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2001/12/07/13:32:42
Looking back into the archives it seems that Robert thought the way to go
would be a stub resolver. Still think that way, Robert, and are you still
willing to help someone make it?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Bradshaw
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 12:33 PM
> To: 'cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com'
> Subject: RE: whois package
>
>
> ok. Next question. Can we shamelessly steal code from bind
> for inclusion
> in cygwin? I'm not familiar with its licensing, but the
> copyright notice
> looks like it gives full permission to use their code as we
> see fit. Can I
> get an amen from someone who knows what they're talking about here?
>
> And the next question, would we want to go that route?
>
> Mark
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de]
> > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 12:14 PM
> > To: Mark Bradshaw
> > Cc: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
> > Subject: Re: whois package
> >
> >
> > Hallo Mark,
> >
> > 2001-12-07 18:05:12, du schriebst:
> >
> > > Going back to dig and host, I'm guessing that the
> > maintainer would need to
> > > actually be a maintainer for the whole bind package? Am I
> > right in assuming
> > > that having bind as a cygwin package would provide
> > libresolv functionality,
> > > or would more be required.
> >
> > No just the resolver is needed to build the tools, I can
> > query every NS so the
> > named isn't required and I think my 'native' Windows DNS
> > Server is much faster.
> >
> > > BTW, I can get bind 9.2 to compile with some modification....
> >
> > Great. But there are some problems here.
> > If bind installs in /usr there are some files which collide,
> > netdb.h, sys/cdefs.h,
> > arpa/inet.h.
> > A possibility to resolve this would be a split into runtime
> > and devel version,
> > or the headers needs to be merged which is the better choice IMO.
> >
> > On the other hand, the best would be to have a libresolv
> > included with the C lib
> > or resolver functions in cygwin itself so bind isn't needed.
> >
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