From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 20 08:51:56 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8530E106564A for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:51:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from opti.dougb.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3188814DD5B; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:51:56 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5031FAAB.9020409@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 01:51:55 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120728 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vitaly Magerya References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.3 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling?=, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_Sm=F8rgrav?= , Garrett Wollman , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Replacing BIND with unbound X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:51:56 -0000 On 08/06/2012 13:23, Vitaly Magerya wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: >> On 07/07/2012 16:33, Garrett Wollman wrote: >>> The utilities (specifically host(1) and dig(1)) are the only >>> user-visible interfaces I care about. > [...] >> ldns (a dependency of unbound) comes with drill, which is a dig-alike >> tool. I'd like to see us produce a host-alike based on ldns as well, > > If there still is interest, I've got just that at [1]. This tool, > ldns-host, implements all the options of bind9-host (except for > debugging ones), and produces close (and often identical) output. > > There's a list of differences between ldns-host and bind9-host > in the man page (see [2]); most items can be fixed if people > will request for it. Some more exotic situations where not tested > though, so that list is only partial. > > [1] http://hg.tx97.net/ldns-host/file/ > [2] http://manweb.tx97.net/http://hg.tx97.net/ldns-host/raw-file/tip/ldns-host.1 If I didn't already say so, this is awesome! :) Dag-Erling, do you have a timeline for getting started on the ldns/unbound import? -- I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. -- Edward Everett Hale, (1822 - 1909)