[Sipsak] Failure to build SIPSAK with SRV support dependency on Solaris 9

[Nils Ohlmeier]

Hi Peter,

On Friday 11 November 2005 18:10, peter.3.edwards at bt.com wrote:
> I heard back from my Solaris guru, who has failed to get anywhere with
> RULI.  He's come to the same conclusion as you - that RULI doesn't port
> well and to get it compile on Solaris would be non-trivial.  He did
> identify another DNS resolver which would do SRV lookups that doesn't
> rely on IPv6 and, hence, might be more portable (as you mentioned
> supporting another resolve earlier):
>
> http://web.mit.edu/afs/dev.mit.edu/source/src-current/athena/lib/ares/
>
> Thanks for your assistance, anyway.  I guess unless I can find a linux
> box, I will have to make do without the SRV support until the landscape
> shifts!

check out the latest source from the trunk directory. Besides TCP support they 
also contain SRV support via the c-ares lib

http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/

As far as I got it c-ares is a more modern and feature rich version of ares. 
And hopefully it should be at least as portable as ares.

I would appreciate any feedback.

  Nils