Subject: Re: threads support (scheduler activation) and libraries
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 06/25/2002 23:18:04
>> >Another question, I suppose, is whether there is an even newer bind9
>> >set we should be planning on ultimately moving to.
>> 	as far as libbind (libc resolver) is concerned, there's almost no
>> 	difference between BIND8 and BIND9.
>We should probably extract our changes from the resolver and re-apply
>them to a bind8/9 codebase.

	the problem is, many of BIND4 -> BIND8/9 changes implement identical
	function to netbsd changes (irs.conf vs nsdispatch, IPv6 support,
	and such) so we need to pick one of them.
	- pick ISC one if you want to be in sync with BIND)
	- pick netbsd one if you want backward compat

itojun