Kerberos 1.4 to require bind8 or newer

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Fri Sep 17 12:23:28 EDT 2004


>>>>> "Jacques" == Jacques A Vidrine <nectar at FreeBSD.org> writes:

    Jacques> Could you describe (maybe on the list) what it is you
    Jacques> need from BIND 8?  For example, on BSD we ship BIND 8 or
    Jacques> BIND 9 named, but the resolver is really neither ... it's
    Jacques> probably closer to BIND 4, and I don't believe there is
    Jacques> any possibility of making major changes to the resovler
    Jacques> in FreeBSD 4.x or 5.x.  However, if I can understand
    Jacques> better what is needed, it may not be that big a deal to
    Jacques> cope.

we need res_search, the ns_* API for parsing DNS packets and the
appropriate declarations to make it all compile cleanly.


we are dropping support to parse DNS packets ourselves.



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