Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:53:14 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?) Message-ID: <4FFB44BA.3040208@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201207091533.08963.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> References: <CA%2BQLa9B-Dm-=hQCrbEgyfO4sKZ5aG72_PEFF9nLhyoy4GRCGrA@mail.gmail.com> <4FFA7980.4000707@FreeBSD.org> <CAMjP1K=b8mwqe31m=OqjUV%2BF=B85L4vpfT%2BDj00a1voPB-8TwA@mail.gmail.com> <201207091533.08963.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>
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On 07/09/2012 06:33, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
> On Monday 09 July 2012 09:34:34 Avleen Vig wrote:
>> The issue is also one of barrier-to-entry. By removing `dig` and
>> `host`, I think we're making things unnecessarily more difficult for
>> people who don't *know* FreeBSD. `dig` and `host` a universally
>> standard tools for doing DNS lookups. Taking them away in base to
>> replace them with something else just seems like something that won't
>> really *help* users.
>
> Yes. So we should change the base system so that by default it does a database
> lookup whenever you type an unrecognised command - to lower the barrier to
> entry.
Right.
> We should also change the base system to remove the most commonly used
> tools for doing DNS lookups, to.... what was the reason again?
It's been covered at length in this thread.
We get it, change is hard.
Doug
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