libbind9 in BIND 9.3

[Danny Mayer]

At 12:25 PM 1/19/2005, Stefan Puiu wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I see there's a new directory in the BIND 9.3 source under lib/, namely
>lib/bind9 - and a new library that is being installed on both UNIX and
>Windows, libbind9.a or libbind9.dll. What is it used for? I see that
>check.c used to be in libisccfg in 9.2.3 and includes functions one can
>use to check BIND 9 configuration files, and getaddresses.c seems to
>provide a function for querying a nameserver for its IPv4 and IPv6
>addresses, but they don't have any comments inside to explain what
>they're supposed to, so the best I can do is guess. Is my guess right?
>Is it intended to grow into a replacement for the old libbind resolver
>library, or is it intended only to be used for simple address resolution
>(and configuration parsing)?
>
>Thanks in advance.

The header files document the use. see lib/bind9/include/bind9/getaddresses.h
for details.

Danny