Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has transferred the maintainership of the open source libbind suite to the NetBSD project. This networking development kit is rebranded as netresolv at this time.
Previously maintained by ISC as part of the BIND suite, it was split out as a separate product in 2009 as libbind-6.0. Historically, much of the code is derived from the CSRG BSD distributions, such as the old BSD gethostbyname() standard API. The copyrights and licensing remain the same. An active community of developers and many operating systems (including NetBSD) continue to use parts of this suite. Developers and vendors maintaining a private copy of these functions may consider working with NetBSD to share and review code and bugfixes. The netresolv suite provides functions and documentation for communicating with domain name servers, retrieving network host entries from /etc/hosts or via DNS, converting CIDR network addresses, performing Hesiod information lookups, retrieving network entries from /etc/networks, implementing TSIG transaction/request security of DNS messages, performing name-to-address and address-to-name translations, and utilizing /etc/resolv.conf for resolver configuration. For further details, please visit http://wiki.netbsd.org/individual-software-releases/netresolv/.
