forwarding algorithm and timeouts
Brad Knowles
brad.knowles at skynet.be
Wed Mar 28 00:40:04 UTC 2001
At 7:03 PM -0500 3/27/01, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> Well, *technically* the term "resolver" covers any software program
> or component which acts as a client to extract DNS information.
I see. You're going to force me to quote. Very well. From
<ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/doc/bog/file.lst> (reformatted slightly
for readability):
1. Introduction
The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet name server for
BSD-derived operating systems. The BIND consists of a server (or ``daemon'')
called named and a resolver library. A name server is a network service that
enables clients to name resources or objects and share this information with
other objects in the network. This in effect is a distributed data base system
for objects in a computer network. The BIND server runs in the background,
servicing queries on a well known network port. The standard port for UDP and
TCP is specified in /etc/services. The resolver is a set of routines
residing in
a system library that provides the interface that programs can use to
access the
domain name services.
Admittedly, this is a bit old, but it's the most official
documentation I can find under <ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/doc/>, and
at least the terms that it defines almost certainly haven't changed
since the BIND 4.9.x days.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>
/* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum <root at ihack.net> */
/* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */
/* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */
/* */
/* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */
/* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */
dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}'
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