libbind
The libbind functions have been separated from the BIND suite as of BIND 9.6.0. Originally from older versions of BIND, they have been continually maintained and improved but not installed by default with BIND 9. This standard resolver library contains the same historical functions and headers included with many Unix operating systems. In fact, most implementations are based on the same original code. Read more...
We encourage anyone with a private copy of these libraries to investigate this modern release and consider merging back into the mainstream. ISC is willing to review code and bugfix submissions, and to accept bug fixes, for libbind. This includes the old BSD gethostbyname() API. Bug reports may be sent to [email protected]. The public mailing list for discussing libbind development is bind-workers.
Visit the Current Releases link to download the final production release of libbind.
ISC's libbind provides the standard resolver library, along with header files and documentation, for communicating with domain name servers, retrieving network host entries from /etc/hosts or via DNS, converting CIDR network addresses, performing Hesiod information lookups, retrieving network entries from /etc/networks, implementing TSIG transaction/request security of DNS messages, performing name-to-address and address-to-name translations, and utilizing /etc/resolv.conf for resolver configuration.
The C APIs include:
- dn_comp(3)
- dn_expand(3)
- endhostent(3)
- endnetent(3)
- fp_resstat(3)
- freeaddrinfo(3)
- freehostent (3)
- gai_strerror(3)
- getaddrinfo(3)
- gethostbyaddr(3)
- gethostbyname(3)
- gethostent(3)
- getipnodebyaddr(3)
- getipnodebyname(3)
- getnameinfo(3)
- getnetbyaddr(3)
- getnetbyname(3)
- getnetent(3)
- herror(3)
- hesiod(3)
- hesiod_end(3)
- hesiod_free_list(3)
- hesiod_init(3)
- hesiod_resolve(3)
- hesiod_to_bind(3)
- hstrerror(3)
- inet_cidr_ntop(3)
- inet_cidr_pton(3)
- ns_find_tsig(3)
- ns_sign(3)
- ns_sign_tcp(3)
- ns_sign_tcp_init(3)
- ns_verify(3)
- ns_verify_tcp(3)
- ns_verify_tcp_init(3)
- res_findzonecut(3)
- res_getservers(3)
- res_hostalias(3)
- res_nclose(3)
- res_ndestroy(3)
- res_ninit(3)
- res_nmkquery(3)
- res_nmkupdate(3)
- res_nquery(3)
- res_nquerydomain(3)
- res_nsearch(3)
- res_nsend(3)
- res_nsendsigned(3)
- res_nupdate(3)
- res_ourserver_p(3)
- res_pquery(3)
- res_setservers(3)
- sethostent(3)
- setnetent(3)
