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<strong>Advanced, easy to use, asynchronous-capable DNS client
library and utilities.</strong>
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<p>
adns is a resolver library for C (and C++) programs, and a collection
-of useful DNS resolver utilities. In contrast with the existing
-interfaces, gethostbyname et al and libresolv, it has the following
-features:
+of useful DNS resolver utilities.
+
+
+<h2>C library</h2>
+
+In contrast with the standard interfaces, gethostbyname et al and
+libresolv, it has the following features:
<ul>
scripts to do simple lookups. In a more advanced mode it can be used
as a general-purpose DNS helper program for scripting languages which
can invoke and communicate with subprocesses. See the
-<A href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/usage/adnsresfilter_usage.text">usage
-message</A> for a summary of its capabilities.
+<A href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/adnshost.txt">adnshost
+usage message</A> for a summary of its capabilities.
</ul>
-<h2>Technical note</h2>
-
-adns requires a real nameserver like
-<A href="http://www.isc.org/view.cgi?/products/BIND/index.phtml">BIND</A>
-or
-<A href="http://www.dents.org/">Dents</A> running on
-the same system or a nearby one, which must be willing to provide
-`recursive service'. I.e., adns is a `stub resolver'. All properly
-configured UN*X and GNU systems will already have such nameserver(s);
-they are usually listed in /etc/resolv.conf.
-
<h2>Documentation</h2>
I'm afraid there is no manual yet. However, competent C programmers
I have set up mailinglists <code>adns-announce</code> and
<code>adns-discuss</code>. The announcements list is moderated and
-will contain only announcements of important bugs, new versions, &c.
+will contain only announcements of important bugs, new versions, etc.
The bug reports address mentioned above is also a mailing list; feel
free to subscribe to it.
<A href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/">chiark.greenend.org.uk</A>
are:
<ul>
-<li>The <A href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/adns.tar.gz">current beta version</A>
- as a gzipped tarfile.
+<li>The <A href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/adns.tar.gz">current
+ release</A> as a gzipped tarfile.
<li><A href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/adns.h.txt">adns.h</A>
- API header file with comments (currently there is no manual, sorry).
+ API header file with comments, and
+ <A href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/adnsresfilter.txt">usage
+ message for adnshost</A> (currently there is no manual, sorry).
<li>All versions released so far are also available via
<A href="ftp://ftp.chiark.greenend.org.uk/users/ian/adns/">anonymous
- FTP</A>.
+ FTP</A> and <A href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~/ian/adns/ftp/">HTTP</A>,
<li>A mirror of my CVS repository is available via rsync from
<code>rsync.chiark.greenend.org.uk::ftp/users/ian/cvs-pub/adns</code>
(use FTP first to find your way around), or via
<A href="http://www.gnu.org/">GNU Project</A> FTP servers and their
<A href="http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html">mirrors</A>.
+<h2>Technical note</h2>
+
+adns requires a real nameserver like
+<A href="http://www.isc.org/view.cgi?/products/BIND/index.phtml">BIND</A>
+or
+<A href="http://www.dents.org/">Dents</A> running on
+the same system or a nearby one, which must be willing to provide
+`recursive service'. I.e., adns is a `stub resolver'. All properly
+configured UN*X and GNU systems will already have such nameserver(s);
+they are usually listed in /etc/resolv.conf.
+
<h2>Copyright and licensing</h2>
-<kbd>adns</kbd> is Copyright 1997-2000 Ian Jackson, Copyright 1999
-Tony Finch, and Copyright (C) 1991 Massachusetts Institute of
-Technology.
+<kbd>adns</kbd> is Copyright 1997-2000 Ian Jackson, Copyright
+1999-2000 Tony Finch, and Copyright (C) 1991 Massachusetts Institute
+of Technology.
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