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Date:      Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:05:35 -0600
From:      "Samuel J. Greear" <sjg@evilcode.net>
To:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Replacing BIND with unbound
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 8/21/2012 11:08 AM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Doug Barton wrote:
>
>>> Neither importing ldns nor removing BIND is going to have any effect on
>>> the stub resolver library in libc.
>>
>> Yes it does as if we are not carefull, we'll neither have a _proper_
>> validating caching resolver but 4 different resolver libraries 3 of
>> which needing crypto and only 2 with a well known support plan and
>> only 2 with the same interface in base.
>

<snip>

Just a data point. DragonFly removed BIND from base in favor of
ldns/drill in June of 2010, there has not been any quantifiable
fallout. We did not bring in unbound and there are no plans to do so.

Sam



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