Re: dlopenable DLZ drivers?

Todd Lyons <[email protected]> Mon, 7 Mar 2011 18:17:51 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.network.dns.bind9.dlz
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Evan Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'm now considering an idea, for BIND 9.9.0, of taking the other DLZ
> drivers and turning them into external modules for use with dlopen.
> If we do this, instead of having to build named --with-dlz-ldap
> or --with-dlz-mysql or whatever, you could just use a stock BIND 9
> build and put this in named.conf:
>
>        dlz "example" {
>            database "dlopen /path/to/dlz-ldap.so <LDAP args>";
>        };
>
> The existing method of configuring BIND for DLZ would be killed off in
> favor of this.

I personally don't have any issues with this.  It doesn't affect me
one way or the other as long as it works the same.
-- 
Regards...      Todd
I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and
ignorance that does harm.  -- Marcus Aurealius

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