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From: Mark Bradshaw <bradshaw AT staff DOT crosswalk DOT com>
To: "'cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: whois package
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:31:46 -0500 
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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.
> > 
> > Gerrit
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