----- Original Message -----
> Jaroslav Skarvada:
> > Hi Wietse,
> >
> > thanks for info. Are you going to introduce this patch upstream?
>
> The process is as follows:
>
> 1) I sadistically keep the fix for myself and let everyone else suffer.
>
> Oh, that is not what I do.
>
> The process, by now 20 years old, is as follows.
>
> 1) The fix runs on my own primary server, and is is available in
> the development release. That happened yesterday because I dod not
> have time earlier. BTW this is a 'point fix'. In fuiture releases
> there will also be code that warns if someone wants to combine
> negative response TTLs with RES_DEFNAMES or RES_DNSRCH.
>
> 2) At some suitable time, the stable releases are updated. As this
> fix is not urgent, and the last stable fix was a month ago, I do
> not expect to update the stable releases in the week before the
> holidays.
>
> Wietrse
>
>
Sarcasm is not needed. I asked, because it wasn't clear to me what
will happen taking into account the first reply to my bug report. Anyway
thanks for the fix
regards
Jaroslav