* Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo: > While udns has no entered etch or lenny, we should reconsider that > situation in the case of squeeze. Some software in Debian depends or > may be improved while depending on udns.
udns doesn't handle truncation, so it won't play well with the PowerDNS recursor (which doesn't support EDNS). It does not use a connected UDP socket, so it won't notice ICMP errors. (This means that it's only suitable for long-running processes.) The escape sequences it uses inside TXT records are hexadecimal, not decimal, as it is standard for DNS software. The domain name parser triggers undefined behavior for certain inputs because it performs out-of-bound pointer arithmetic. This is unlikely to cause practical problems with current GCC versions (but LTO might change this). Sorry for being unconstructive, but I really don't think we need yet another DNS resolver in Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
