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Subject: Re: Bind in FreeBSD, security advisories
From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:55 AM, David Demelier
<demelier.david@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For years, a lot of security advisories have been present for bind.
> I'm just guessing if it's not a good idea to remove bind from base?
>
> This will probably free by half the number of FreeBSD SA's in the future.
>

Sure, but no bind in base also implies no dig, nslookup or host.

Cheers

Tom