On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:59:21PM +0100, Cordula's Web wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to compile milter-dnsrbl.c from > ftp://ftp.atnf.csiro.au/pub/people/rgooch/email-utilities/mailutils.tgz > > The problem is that gethostbyname_r() doesn't seem to exist > in FreeBSD. This is the code which uses it (from milter-dnsrbl.c): > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > #if !defined(__linux__) || !defined(__GLIBC__) > if ( !gethostbyname_r (lookup_name, &ret, buf, sizeof buf, &herrnum) ) > continue; > #else > if ( gethostbyname_r (lookup_name, &ret, buf, sizeof buf, &result, > &herrnum) ) continue; > #endif > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Am I just missing something here (like linking to some obscure library), > or is that really a known issue? > > I'm using: > FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0: Fri Nov 7 03:24:27 CET 2003 > with a GENERIC kernel.
It's a known issue. There are some third party DNS libraries that provide an implementation, e.g. in newer versions of bind. Kris
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