Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist DNS client library designed to replace the old BIND res_*/dn_* library[0]
High-level lookups: The dns library provides several easy-to-use DNS lookup routines: dns_ip4, dns_ip4_qualify, dns_name4, dns_mx, and dns_txt. dns_ip4_qualify supports the traditional configuration mechanisms for hostname rewriting: $LOCALDOMAIN, /etc/resolv.conf, and gethostname. It also supports a powerful new user-controlled rewriting mechanism. The functions that read /etc/resolv.conf automatically reread it every ten minutes, so system administrators don't have to kill long-running programs. Low-level lookups: The dns_domain_* and dns_packet_* functions make it easy to safely parse DNS packets. The dns_transmit_* functions send DNS queries of arbitrary types to arbitrary servers. These are the functions used in the dnscache program. License: Bernstein has put the .[ch] files (dns.h, dns_dfd.c, dns_domain.c, dns_dtda.c, dns_ip.c, dns_ipq.c, dns_mx.c, dns_name.c, dns_nd.c, dns_packet.c, dns_random.c, dns_rcip.c, dns_rcrw.c, dns_resolve.c, dns_sortip.c, dns_transmit.c, dns_txt.c) and all necessary lower-level .[ch] files into the public domain[1]. I do not plan to make any changes to those files, so Bernstein's djbdns security guarantee[2] applies. My additions to the package will be licensed under a BSD compatible license. Regards, Gerrit. [0] http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/blurb/library.html [1] http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/res-disaster.html [2] http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/guarantee.html
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