Bug#545795: ITP: libbind -- standard resolver library

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 10:20:57 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: "Ondřej Surý" <ondrej@debian.org>

> * Package name    : libbind
>   Version         : 6.0
>   Upstream Author : Internet Systems Consortium
> * URL             : https://www.isc.org/software/libbind
> * License         : BSD
>   Programming Lang: C++
>   Description     : the standard resolver library
>  
>  ISC's libbind provides the standard resolver library, along with
>  header files and documentation, for communicating with domain name
>  servers, retrieving network host entries from /etc/hosts or via DNS,
>  converting CIDR network addresses, performing Hesiod information
>  lookups, retrieving network entries from /etc/networks, implementing
>  TSIG transaction/request security of DNS messages, performing
>  name-to-address and address-to-name translations, and utilizing
>  /etc/resolv.conf for resolver configuration.

This seems to be already packaged:

  <http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/libbind>

And there's also the one coming from the bind9 source packages.

regards,
guillem