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["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oliver Tappe <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Well, we have BIND as part of our libnetwork.so, in the dns/ 
> > > subfolder.
> > > I think Waldemar originally ported it.
> > Yes, I ported BIND, but Philippe once mentioned some better 
> > resolver
> > (djbdns or tinydns?) which is less buggy and has a simpler 
> > codebase:
> > http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
> > http://tinydns.org/
> Yes, I personally am all for replacing bind with a simple dns-cache. 
> We don't 
> need the server part anyway (at least not the real thing) and the 
> code has a 
> bad reputation by now anyway...

That's indeed true. Even though the client part alone is probably not 
that crucial. In any way, I would not think that this is a very urgent 
thing to solve, at least if BIND still runs okay in our new stack :-)

> I am not sure if we could use djbdns easily, as when I looked at it 
> very 
> briefly today, it gave me the impression of depending on other pars 
> of Dan 
> Bernstein's software suite. Another possibility would be to use 
> dnsmasq, but 
> that is GPL, I don't know if that rules it out...

LGPL would be okay, but since all net apps would need to link against 
that code, and at the net_server as well, I wouldn't think GPL is an 
option.
How many other parts would djbdns need, anyway?

Bye,
   Axel.