On Aug 23 16:34, Reini Urban wrote: > 2010/8/23 Corinna Vinschen <BZZZZZ!!!>
PCYM...? > > Why does the Net::DNS module, which provides only a resolver API, depend > > on a Win32-related package at all? Cygwin 1.7 provides a BSD compatible > > resolver API (res_init, res_query, etc) which should be used, just like > > on Linux. Does the module erroneously treat Cygwin as Windows target? > > If so, that should be fixed. > > Sure. It's entirely stupid for Net::DNS to treat cygwin same as MSWin32. > A good catch by Yaakov. Wonder why I never had any issue with that. > > I'll come up with a better cygwin resolver for Net::DNS, which does not need > a slow and always broken Win32::API + Win32::IPHelper. > Behind my proxy using Net::DNS::Resolver::UNIX on cygwin worked okay, > but I'll test again at home and bump perl then. Thanks! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
