Re: lwres NSS module

[Mark Kettenis <kettenis at wins dot uva dot nl>]

   Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:24:02 -0700 (PDT)
   From: Brian Wellington <Brian.Wellington@nominum.com>

   On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Mark Kettenis wrote:

   > I've created a lwres NSS module to use with the GNU C Library.  This
   > module provides support for the lightweight resolver included in BIND
   > 9.  You can find the code at:
   > 
   >    <http://members1.chello.nl/~m.m.kettenis>
   > 
   > I've tested the code with the lwresd and liblwres.so from
   > bind9-snap-20000707.tar.gz.

   Cool.  Seems to work pretty well so far.

   One thing - in the README, it says:

   In order to use the module, you must make sure that the lightweight
   resolver daemon `lwresd' (included in the BIND 9.1 snapshots, but absent
   from the latest BIND 9.0 beta releases) is running.

   lwresd in included in the latest BIND 9.0 beta, but is now the same binary
   as named, and a link is made from named to lwresd during the build.  It
   doesn't act as a name server, but shares a lot of internal code.

Thanks for the info.  I must say I was wondering why liblwres was
include, and lwresd wasn't.

I'll adjust the README for the next "release".

Mark