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GNU's adns 1.5 Now Fully Supports IPv6

Written by Michael Larabel in GNU on 2 November 2014 at 01:01 PM EST. 7 Comments

The GNU adns project that provides a command-line interface and C/C++ library that serves as a resolver library and for other DNS lookup tasks has received a major weekend update.

The adns 1.5.0 release now provides full IPv6 support with the ability to request AAAA records for IPv6 addresses and in communicating with nameservers via IPv6. There's also new C functions for converting between addresses and address literals. Beyond these new features are also a number of bug fixes and API/ABI improvements.

Adns 1.5.0 is the first release now put out under a GNU GPLv3+ license.

More details on adns 1.5.0 can be found via the GNU mailing list announcement.

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