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libasyncns @PACKAGE_VERSION@

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Copyright 2004 Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>

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License

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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or +modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as +published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the +License, or (at your option) any later version.

+ +

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but +WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU +Lesser General Public License for more details.

+ +

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License +along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software +Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

+ +

News

+ +
Fri 7 Jan 2005:

Version 0.1 released

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Overview

+ +

libasyncns is a C library for Linux/Unix for executing name +service queries asynchronously. It is an asynchronous wrapper around +getaddrinfo(3) and getnameinfo(3) from the +libc.

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In contrast to GNU's asynchronous name resolving API +getaddrinfo_a(), libasyncns does not make use of +UNIX signals for reporting completion of name queries. Instead, the +API exports a standard UNIX file descriptor which may be integerated +cleanly into custom main loops.

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In contrast to asynchronous DNS resolving libraries like libdenise, skadns, adns, +libasyncns is just an asynchronous wrapper around the libc's +synchronous getaddrinfo() API, which has the advantage of +allowing name resolution using techniques like Multicast +DNS, LDAP or NIS using standard libc NSS (Name Service +Switch) modules. libasyncns is compatible with IPv6 if the +underlying libc is too.

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libasyncns is very tiny, consisting just of one header and one source file. It has no dependencies besides a libc.

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Status

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Version @PACKAGE_VERSION@ is quite stable and feature complete.

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Documentation

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You may browse the Doxygen +generated programing +documentation the API. (Run make doxygen to generate this +documentation from the source tree)

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Requirements

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Currently, libasyncns is tested on Linux only.

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libasyncns was developed and tested on Debian GNU/Linux +"testing" from January 2005, it should work on most other Linux +distributions (and maybe Unix versions) since it uses GNU autoconf and +GNU libtool for source code configuration and shared library +management.

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libasyncns has no dependencies besides a libc that supports getaddrinfo().

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Installation

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As this package is made with the GNU autotools you should run +./configure inside the distribution directory for configuring +the source tree. After that you should run make for +compilation and make install (as root) for installation of +libasyncns.

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Acknowledgements

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None so far

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Download

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The newest release is always available from @PACKAGE_URL@

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The current release is @PACKAGE_VERSION@

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Get libasyncns's development sources from the Subversion repository (viewcvs):

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svn checkout svn://seth.intheinter.net/libasyncns/trunk libasyncns
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+
Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, January 2005
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$Id$
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