Re: use of lwresd?

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 02:45:29PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> When I installed bind9 from pkgsrc, there was an rc.d file for lwresd.
> Does our resolver library support it?  Do I need to add something to
> nsswitch.conf?  As best I can tell, it's not working for me.

To use lwresd, you have to link your application to a special library
which uses its local protocol instead of full DNS queries.  Maybe we should
ship an nsswitch module which does that?

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Thor Lancelot Simon                                        
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