X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:38:15 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: perl: Net::DNS requires Win32::IPHelper Message-ID: <20100824083815.GO6726@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1282535618.6888.51.camel@YAAKOV04> <20100823140705.GG6726@calimero.vinschen.de> <1282583279.5256.8.camel@YAAKOV04> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1282583279.5256.8.camel@YAAKOV04> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Aug 23 12:07, Yaakov S wrote: > 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. Ok, right. I still don't understand why it makes sense to implement another resolver when the system resolver functions exist, though... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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