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Date:      Fri, 06 Dec 2013 23:17:45 -0800
From:      Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com>
To:        Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: BIND chroot environment in 10-RELEASE...gone?
Message-ID:  <52A2CB99.5050900@bluerosetech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20131206223300.89253B55861@rock.dv.isc.org>
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On 12/6/2013 2:33 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message <1386367748.17212.56515229.7C50AFEB@webmail.messagingengine.com>, Ma
> rk Felder writes:
>> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013, at 16:00, Mark Andrews wrote:
>>>
>>> But they should all be running a resursive validating resolver on
>>> every box.
>>
>> Are you *really* suggesting that I should run a recursive validating
>> server on every single server I admin?
>
> I'm suggesting that it should be run on *every* machine in the
> world, until all the applications that use data from the DNS have
> been upgraded to validate the data they get from the DNS, need to
> be be running a validating resolver.

Yes, everything needs a validating resolver; but everything only needs 
something behind getaddrinfo() that validates the responses provided by 
the servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf.  BIND and Unbound do not operate 
as forwarding servers by default and we really do not want everything 
running its own root-hinted resolver.



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