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Advanced, easy to use, asynchronous-capable DNS client
library and utilities.
-
+
-
+
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+
Forthcoming:
+
+I hope that future versions may also have the following features:
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+
+
+
The library should be useable by threads in a multithreaded
+program in a natural way. It should multiplex many threads' queries
+through a single query socket.
+
+
IPv6 support.
+
+
Some kind of awareness of DNSSEC.
+
+
Possibly some very limited caching behaviour.
+
+
There was, at one point, a draft native Perl interface from Tony Finch.
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+
+
Documentation
I'm afraid there is no manual yet. However, competent C programmers
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release as a gzipped tarfile.
All versions released so far are also available via
anonymous
- FTP and HTTP,
-
A mirror of my CVS repository is available via rsync from
+ FTP and HTTP.
+
+
+You can also access the project CVS repositories:
+
+
A mirror of the source code repository is available via rsync from
rsync.chiark.greenend.org.uk::ftp/users/ian/cvs-pub/adns
(use FTP first to find your way around), or via
cvsweb.
+
This web page is maintained in
+ Savannah,
+ where you can browse the
+ webpage CVS.
adns is also available from the
@@ -166,11 +193,24 @@ the same system or a nearby one, which must be willing to provide
configured UN*X and GNU systems will already have such nameserver(s);
they are usually listed in /etc/resolv.conf.
+
-adns is Copyright 1997-2000 Ian Jackson, Copyright
-1999-2000 Tony Finch, and Copyright (C) 1991 Massachusetts Institute
-of Technology.
+adns is Copyright 1997-2000,2003,2006 Ian Jackson,
+Copyright 1999-2000,2003,2006 Tony Finch, and Copyright (C) 1991
+Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
-This web page is Copyright (C)1996-2000 Ian Jackson. See the
+This web page is Copyright (C)1996-2005 Ian Jackson. See the
Copyright/acknowledgements.