Re: [ITP] bind-9.6.0-1

2009-01-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 21 17:11, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: I'm not asking to use the resolver lib. I'm asking that the resolver code in bind's libs uses the same method to fetch nameserver and domain information as Cygwin's default resolver does. You could just as easily make the

Re: [ITP] bind-9.6.0-1

2009-01-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
A request: I think a lot of people would find it useful if you were to split out the client tools, in particular 'host', from the bind server package. I don't want to run a DNS server-- I just want to be able to use the 'host' command. Thanks, Andrew.

Re: [ITP] bind-9.6.0-1

2009-01-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 21 11:51, Andrew Schulman wrote: A request: I think a lot of people would find it useful if you were to split out the client tools, in particular 'host', from the bind server package. I don't want to run a DNS server-- I just want to be able to use the 'host' command. Thanks, Andrew.

Re: [ITP] bind-9.6.0-1

2009-01-21 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Andrew Schulman wrote: A request: I think a lot of people would find it useful if you were to split out the client tools, in particular 'host', from the bind server package. I don't want to run a DNS server-- I just want to be able to use the

Re: [ITP] bind-9.6.0-1

2009-01-21 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-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

Re: [ITP] bind-9.6.0-1

2009-01-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 21 11:20, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: 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

Re: [ITP] bind-9.6.0-1

2009-01-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
A request: I think a lot of people would find it useful if you were to split out the client tools, in particular 'host', from the bind server package. I don't want to run a DNS server-- I just want to be able to use the 'host' command. Thanks, Andrew. I don't see that as a

Re: [ITP] bind-9.6.0-1

2009-01-21 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: Ok, but the Cygwin resolver lib also works without this file because the nameserver information can be (and is) fetched from Windows. Would it be feasible to use the same method as the resolver lib so that we don't have

Re: [ITP] bind-9.6.0-1

2009-01-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 21 11:58, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Ok, but the Cygwin resolver lib also works without this file because the nameserver information can be (and is) fetched from Windows. Would it be feasible to use the same method as the resolver lib so that we don't have

Re: [ITP] bind-9.6.0-1

2009-01-21 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: Well, yes. That's why I'm asking the above question. I'm really not sure where you're going with this. This isn't Cygwin specific; BIND doesn't use libresolv on Linux either. Yaakov -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [ITP] bind-9.6.0-1

2009-01-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 21 12:56, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Well, yes. That's why I'm asking the above question. I'm really not sure where you're going with this. This isn't Cygwin specific; BIND doesn't use libresolv on Linux either. I'm not asking to use the resolver lib. I'm

Re: [ITP] bind-9.6.0-1

2009-01-21 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: I'm not asking to use the resolver lib. I'm asking that the resolver code in bind's libs uses the same method to fetch nameserver and domain information as Cygwin's default resolver does. You could just as easily make

Re: [ITP] bind-9.6.0-1

2009-01-21 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 12:37 PM 1/21/2009, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 21 11:20, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: 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

Re: [ITP] bind-9.6.0-1

2009-01-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 18 22:54, Christopher Faylor wrote: Woo hoo! Thanks Yaakov! Indeed. Just go ahead, Yaakov. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat

Re: [ITP] bind-9.6.0-1

2009-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
Woo hoo! Thanks Yaakov! cgf