[dns-operations] friday version of dnscap
Florian Weimer
fw at deneb.enyo.de
Mon May 7 13:34:42 UTC 2007
* Paul Vixie:
> what's your advice, then? if i remove the "-g" feature and recode ns_put32
> to be a macro call, then the libbind dependency will go away. or, i could
> put a copy of libbind into the dnscap tarball.
Where does dig get its output routines from? It doesn't appear to
link against libbind. Has it got its own copy?
>From a distribution maintainer's point of view, duplicating the code
is a bad idea, especially since it's exposed to network traffic. If a
problem comes up, we want to issue a single update (well, for each
supported branch). Hunting down all copies of zlib was quite painful.
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