>>>>> On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 17:07:09 +0900, itojun@iijlab.net said:

> 	without wholesale replacement you won't get thread-safe name/service/
> 	whatever resolution.
		:
> 	but they use the same backend such as *hostent(), therefore we need to
> 	pull in irs framework, or it's meaningless.

That is not technically accurate description.

Please look at glibc implementation, or Solaris implemataion. Both
glibc and Solaris do use bind8/9 resolver, but they don't use IRS
framework.
In other words, IRS framework and bind8 resolver are indepdendent.
You don't have to pull in IRS framework to use bind8 resolver.
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