Love <lha@stacken.kth.se> wrote:

> > Do I get a fix by linking with BIND8 resolver? (or BIND9? Is BIND8
> > resolver thread safe?) Is it possible? Won't that clash at link time
> > with the resolver function available in libc? 
> You program/library have to use res_ninit/res_nsearch that is part of the
> bind8/9 api.

I've found that BIND-8.2 is "nearly thread-safe", with older API as
stubs using newer thread-safe API
http://ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.199x/msg03798.html

Doesn't that means that everything will be alright once we link with
BIND 8 resolver? Why res_ninit/res_nsearch would be required? 

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