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Re: perl: Net::DNS requires Win32::IPHelper
On Aug 23 12:07, Yaakov S wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 16:07 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Here's a question:
> >
> > Why does the Net::DNS module, which provides only a resolver API, depend
> > on a Win32-related package at all? Cygwin 1.7 provides a BSD compatible
> > resolver API (res_init, res_query, etc) which should be used, just like
> > on Linux. Does the module erroneously treat Cygwin as Windows target?
> > If so, that should be fixed.
>
> Net::DNS does not bind libresolv on *NIX; it does its own parsing
> of /etc/resolv.conf. On Win32, it uses Win32::IPHelper's bindings of
> GetNetworkParams.
>
> So this is YA resolver implementation. When it came to BIND's liblwres,
> you asked that it use the Windows APIs in order to ore closely match our
> libresolv implementation and not require an /etc/resolv.conf. The same
> would apply here as well.
Ok, right. I still don't understand why it makes sense to implement
another resolver when the system resolver functions exist, though...
Corinna
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