The end of the beginning is in sight

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 11:43:01PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> (mutt hiccupped. You might see this twice.)
> 
> Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be>:
> > On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 12:14:35PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > > and the other is ripping out all
> > > the interface-scanning stuff so we lose the dependency on
> > > getifaddrs(3) and use wildcard interfaces only.
> > 
> > Are you sure this is going to work? As far as I know there are (or
> > were) good reasons to do this, but I can't remember them
> > currently. But it's at least something that's specific to UDP.
> 
> If you can remember a blocker, please tell us about it before I
> put a large amount of work into this.
> 
> A little Googling found this from 2012:
> 
> https://blog.powerdns.com/2012/10/08/on-binding-datagram-udp-sockets-to-the-any-addresses/

That at least matches my understanding of things. And since a
nameserver seems to be using it, it should be possible to get it
to work.

So 1 question I have is if you care about Windows or not.


Kurt