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Date:      Sun, 08 Jul 2012 02:19:49 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling?=, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)
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On 07/07/2012 19:44, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> On Jul 7, 2012, at 5:33 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>> <<On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 16:17:53 -0700, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> said:
>>
>>> BIND in the base today comes with a full-featured local resolver
>>> configuration, which I'm confident that Dag-Erling can do for unbound
>>> (and which I would be glad to assist with if needed). Other than that,
>>> what integration are you concerned about?
>>
>> The utilities (specifically host(1) and dig(1)) are the only
>> user-visible interfaces I care about.  I don't see any need for there
>> to be an authoritative name server in the base system.  So long as the
>> resolver works properly and does DNSsec validation....
> 
> The only reason I want it in the base system is that ports don't cross build very well, but the base system does.  That's a weak +1 for keeping something in the base system, but I'll be the first to admit it is a second or third tier argument at best.

With the proper ports infrastructure, this issue goes away.

Meanwhile, we're already in basic agreement that importing unbound into
the base is a good stopgap.

Doug

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