Re: use of lwresd?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:27:39 -0400
Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost> wrote:

> 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?
> 
That would be my very strong recommendation.  Without it, there's a lot
less point to the daemon.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb