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manu@netbsd.org (Emmanuel Dreyfus) writes:

> 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? 

I assume the annoucement is about the res_n functions.

res_n function are required unless you are prepend to do either of one of
global-locking res_ or using pthread_setspecific. Neither is really
appealing.

Love


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