Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:52:07 -0400 From: J David <j.david.lists@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bind in FreeBSD, security advisories Message-ID: <CABXB=RQEiDrdJ7t6G5_S2SQNHzhqeoq7%2BmW0WOWZjN2E92HA=w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1375193921.29380.3269347.48BF24A6@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <CAO%2BPfDctepQY0mGH7H%2BgOSm4HJwhe-RCND%2BmxAArnRxpWiCsjg@mail.gmail.com> <1375186900.23467.3223791.24CB348A@webmail.messagingengine.com> <51F7B5C7.6050008@digsys.bg> <CAOgwaMt4G02yhU0cbiq_EEwhi4=mgt2kLGJf0Rgb8t9wECsGJA@mail.gmail.com> <51F7C07C.9060606@digsys.bg> <1375193086.25610.3260371.08421FD0@webmail.messagingengine.com> <op.w01ga50n8527sy@ronaldradial.versatec.local> <1375193921.29380.3269347.48BF24A6@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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Half the people will say: "There should be more stuff in base!" The other half will say: "There should be less stuff in base!" People don't generally change each other's minds about this because they start from competing definitions of what is good that are 100% opinion in nature. (Spoken as a hardcore advocate of "There should be less stuff in base!") DNS client and DNS server functionality are quite different, and it would be swell if there were a set of BIND-independent client tools that were part of the base so that BIND could, at a minimum, be left out via WITH_BIND=no in src.conf or similar without producing a crippled system. And/or people could install the DNS server of their choice (whether unbound or BIND or whatever) using pkg. If there isn't one already readily available, I might even volunteer to help develop that set of client tools at such time as FreeBSD coding standards allow C++11 in the tree. :)
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