Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:20:21PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > > [snip] > > > I have recently noticed that the information is in fact available > > > from the registry, but getting to it is not straightforward > > > (same kind of indirect lookups as in net.cc), so with some effort... > > > > I had the funny idea to drop the whole Windows specific part and > > instead create /etc/resolve.conf in the postinstall script from > > the output of `ipconfig /all'. That would work nicely on NT, > > unfortunately the `ipconfig /all' output on 9x doesn't contain the > > DNS domain search list. :-( > > > > Corinna > > Corinna, > > Sure it does, at least on Win98 (just checked). However, instead of there > being one DNS list per adapter, as on NT/2k, there's one global list, > printed in the beginning. Try piping the output of "ipconfig /all" to > less. > Igor
IMO, having the nameservers in resolv.conf is obsolete. In many environments they can change quite rapidly. The resolv.conf can get stale in a sneaky way, with only some servers being active. That causes delays in the lookups. Elfyn wrote: > If it's decided to move minires into winsup or newlib, I'm happy > to help. :-) So am I. We should make a list of things to do. I will use LoadLibrary and look more into using the registry on Win95 and NT. Is there a prefered source for the system header files? Currently they come from bind 9.2.1. For some reason the function names are redefined to add an initial "_". This causes some configure scripts (those omitting to include the headers) to make incorrect conclusions. Pierre
