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1.3     ! wiki        1: The libbsdnet suite provides functions and documentation for communicating
1.1       wiki        2: with domain name servers, retrieving network host entries from
                      3: /etc/hosts or via DNS, converting CIDR network addresses, performing
                      4: Hesiod information lookups, retrieving network entries from
                      5: /etc/networks, implementing TSIG transaction/request security of
                      6: DNS messages, performing name-to-address and address-to-name
                      7: translations, and utilizing /etc/resolv.conf for resolver configuration.
                      8: 
                      9: Historically, much of the code is derived from the CSRG BSD distributions, such
1.3     ! wiki       10: as the old BSD gethostbyname() standard API.  It was previously also maintained by ISC and distributed with BIND
1.1       wiki       11: and libbind.  The handoff of the maintainership from ISC to NetBSD happened in July 2013.
1.3     ! wiki       12: 
        !            13: Patches of NetBSD (June 2013 head) against libbind-6.0 are available at:
        !            14: <http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/reed/libbsdnet/>
        !            15: 
        !            16: libbind provides portability headers: port_before.h and  port_after.h
        !            17: 
        !            18: ### port
        !            19: port directory provides portability headers for many operating sytems
        !            20: make directory provides common Makefile rules and mkdep
        !            21: 
        !            22: ### bsd
        !            23: bsd directory contains compatibility code, such as:
        !            24: daemon(), __ftruncate(), isc__gettimeofday(), gettimeofday(),
        !            25: mkstemp(), mktemp(), gettemp(), putenv(), __readv(), setenv(),
        !            26: unsetenv(), findenv(), __setitimer(), strcasecmp(), strncasecmp(),
        !            27: strdup(), isc_strerror(), strpbrk(), strsep(), strtoul(), __utimes(),
        !            28: __writev(), __writev()
        !            29: 
        !            30: ### dst
        !            31: dst directory contains the Digital Signature Toolkit
        !            32: code for the DST API and crypto API.
        !            33: Parts of NetBSD's copy of libbind in src/lib/libc use
        !            34: this, The dst code is not included in NetBSD's src. Probably the code in src/lib/libc using it actually is
        !            35: not used.
        !            36: 
        !            37: ### inet
        !            38: 
        !            39: /usr/src/common/lib/libc/inet/inet_addr.c
        !            40: 
        !            41: NetBSD adds _inet_aton.c and _inet_pton.c
        !            42: 
        !            43: libbind has (and NetBSD does not have) inet_data in inet.
        !            44: 
        !            45: ### irs
        !            46: irs is the Information Retrieval System; it provides
        !            47: getaddrinfo, gethostbyname, and related.
        !            48: NetBSD doesn't include irs directory as is. But is comparable
        !            49: to some of what we have in /usr/src/lib/libc/net/
        !            50: 
        !            51: NetBSD doesn't have
        !            52: dns.c top-level accessor function for the dns,
        !            53: dns_gr.c for hesiod, 
        !            54: gai_strerror.c,
        !            55: and more.
        !            56: 
        !            57: ### isc
        !            58: isc directory provides many portability functions
        !            59: primarily used for ISC software.
        !            60: 
        !            61: NetBSD only ships with:
        !            62: src/lib/libc/include/isc/assertions.h
        !            63: src/lib/libc/include/isc/dst.h
        !            64: src/lib/libc/include/isc/list.h
        !            65: src/lib/libc/include/isc/memcluster.h
        !            66: src/lib/libc/include/isc/eventlib.h
        !            67: src/lib/libc/include/isc/heap.h
        !            68: src/lib/libc/isc/assertions.c
        !            69: src/lib/libc/isc/ev_streams.c
        !            70: src/lib/libc/isc/ev_timers.c
        !            71: src/lib/libc/isc/eventlib_p.h
        !            72: 
        !            73: ### nameser provides the name resolver routines to parse DNS responses
        !            74: 
        !            75: libbind has (and NetBSD does not have) in nameser:
        !            76: ns_date.c which provides ns_datetosecs(), isleap(), datepart()
        !            77: ns_newmsg.c  for building DNS message packets
        !            78: ns_rdata.c for unpacking or comparing rdata
        !            79: ns_sign.c and for ns_verify.c for tsig
        !            80: 
        !            81: ### resolv
        !            82: 
        !            83: NetBSD adds __dn_comp.c, __res_close.c, __res_send.c,
        !            84: h_errno.c, res_compat.c, res_state.c.
        !            85: 
        !            86: libbind has (and NetBSD does not have) in resolv:
        !            87: (even though NetBSD manual documents them)
        !            88: res_findzonecut.c
        !            89: res_mkupdate.c
        !            90: res_sendsigned.c
        !            91: res_update.c
        !            92: 
        !            93: ### tests
        !            94: tests directory contains dig tool from bind8