X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-50.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Subject: Re: perl: Net::DNS requires Win32::IPHelper From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" To: cygwin In-Reply-To: <20100823140705.GG6726@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <1282535618.6888.51.camel@YAAKOV04> <20100823140705.GG6726@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:07:59 -0500 Message-ID: <1282583279.5256.8.camel@YAAKOV04> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 16:07 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Here's a question: > > Why does the Net::DNS module, which provides only a resolver API, depend > on a Win32-related package at all? Cygwin 1.7 provides a BSD compatible > resolver API (res_init, res_query, etc) which should be used, just like > on Linux. Does the module erroneously treat Cygwin as Windows target? > If so, that should be fixed. Net::DNS does not bind libresolv on *NIX; it does its own parsing of /etc/resolv.conf. On Win32, it uses Win32::IPHelper's bindings of GetNetworkParams. So this is YA resolver implementation. When it came to BIND's liblwres, you asked that it use the Windows APIs in order to ore closely match our libresolv implementation and not require an /etc/resolv.conf. The same would apply here as well. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple