Re: Bind update

[Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:

 >     Plus all of these mechanisms are eventually going to move to an IPC
>     messaging API.  e.g. password lookups, group lookups, resolver lookups,
>     etc.  Once these mechanisms are moved to an IPC messaging API we will
>     be able to change the backend (the IPC service representing the
>     resolver, for example) without having to recompile or reinstall any
>     other programs.  There is no reason to complicate our lives now when
>     we will eventually be going to this more modular model later.  Once
>     the new model is in place it will be far easier to rip out portions
>     of the system and replace them.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Do you envision all this being handled by daemons running as pure kernel 
threads?  It would be cool if DragonFly could have a standard API for 
asynchronous DNS resolutions.

And given all the discussion in FreeBSD-current in the last few days 
about the changes to make /bin and /sbin dynamic so that NSS works 
correctly, I would be interested how this could be better achieved in 
the DragonFly world?

Richard Coleman
richardcoleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx