Subject: Re: have there been any "recent" resolver fixes?
To: NetBSD-current Discussion List <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: current-users
Date: 05/25/2000 11:54:28
>> >bummer.  I think bind-9 should be out by then though so we can hopefully
>> >just go straight to it and skip bind-8's resolver all together!
>> 
>> i think that that will involve threads and some sort of nscd or
>> resolver daemon.  hmm...perhaps doors would be good, too.
>
>Now quit being silly!

wha?

>bind-9's named is, IIRC, threadded, but I don't think its resolver is

okay, but i seem to recall some discussion about dnssec processing
being offloading to something like nscd so that applications could
have the benefits of dnssec without incurring the overhead of having
to do the actual cryptographic processing.

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