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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 07:29:37 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
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Hallo [Privacy],

Am 2001-10-26 um 04:10 schriebst du:

>       i am very interested in finding out the way to be able to use
>       the following functions:
>           res_query
>           res_search
>           res_mkquery
>           res_send
>           res_init
>           dn_comp
>           dn_expand
>       via cygwin.

Aren't these part of bind?
There is a bind port out there by a guy called Biggs, he has it as a
project at sourceforge.

>       i've tried to port libc5 to cygwin, but failed. there are too
>       many problems and errors occured when i was trying to port all
>       those libc5 package i've found over the Internet.

>       i know there are special routines in WinSock, but i HAVE to use
>       these libc functions!

>       or, could anyone advice me the way to resolve MX records via dns
>       that i may use in cygwin and BSD/linux at once.

Make a bind port or port another DNS Server like dents, djbdns or
there is a standalone resolver in squid included which is already
ported, try to extract it.

Ciao,

Gerrit P. Haase                            mailto:gp AT familiehaase DOT de
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