-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > And here's another problem, Yaakov. > > Why does the bind package require an /etc/resolv.conf file? Isn't that > used only by the resolver lib? And the resolver lib is part of Cygwin > 1.7 anyway, or in the minires package for Cygwin 1.5. Minires/Cygwin 1.7 > don't need a resolv.conf file, so why does bind?!?
I was attempting to avoid a FAQ. BIND is a DNS suite, and it needs to know the address of a nameserver in order to do lookups. The usage of /etc/resolv.conf is well documented in both the manpages and the online manual. Yaakov -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkl3WU4ACgkQpiWmPGlmQSNXyQCfXEFPRiLslEh0fwggqgZo7RKO jNoAnAgTDGVHiR4Bgoavl5EEaYpO215X =RCY6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
