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The <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> 9 Lightweight Resolver</h2></div></div></div> -<div class="toc"> -<p><b>Table of Contents</b></p> -<dl> -<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch05.html#id2572269">The Lightweight Resolver Library</a></span></dt> -<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch05.html#lwresd">Running a Resolver Daemon</a></span></dt> -</dl> -</div> -<div class="sect1" lang="en"> -<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> -<a name="id2572269"></a>The Lightweight Resolver Library</h2></div></div></div> -<p> - Traditionally applications have been linked with a stub resolver - library that sends recursive DNS queries to a local caching name - server. - </p> -<p> - IPv6 once introduced new complexity into the resolution process, - such as following A6 chains and DNAME records, and simultaneous - lookup of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Though most of the complexity was - then removed, these are hard or impossible - to implement in a traditional stub resolver. - </p> -<p> - <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> 9 therefore can also provide resolution - services to local clients - using a combination of a lightweight resolver library and a resolver - daemon process running on the local host. These communicate using - a simple UDP-based protocol, the "lightweight resolver protocol" - that is distinct from and simpler than the full DNS protocol. - </p> -</div> -<div class="sect1" lang="en"> -<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> -<a name="lwresd"></a>Running a Resolver Daemon</h2></div></div></div> -<p> - To use the lightweight resolver interface, the system must - run the resolver daemon <span><strong class="command">lwresd</strong></span> or a - local - name server configured with a <span><strong class="command">lwres</strong></span> - statement. - </p> -<p> - By default, applications using the lightweight resolver library will - make - UDP requests to the IPv4 loopback address (127.0.0.1) on port 921. - The - address can be overridden by <span><strong class="command">lwserver</strong></span> - lines in - <code class="filename">/etc/resolv.conf</code>. - </p> -<p> - The daemon currently only looks in the DNS, but in the future - it may use other sources such as <code class="filename">/etc/hosts</code>, - NIS, etc. - </p> -<p> - The <span><strong class="command">lwresd</strong></span> daemon is essentially a - caching-only name server that responds to requests using the - lightweight - resolver protocol rather than the DNS protocol. 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