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Subject: Re: make world clobbers (was Re: some nice advice...)
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> > Any server application, be it sendmail, named, ntpd, apache, squid, etc etc
> > etc., needs to be compiled fresh from the vendor.
> 
> That is complete bullshit. By doing this, you are *introducing*
> problems rather than solving them. The FreeBSD developers spend a lot
> of effort fixing bugs, plugging security holes, and adapting software
> to run optimally on FreeBSD. You shouldn't hand-roll things like
> sendmail or BIND unless you're prepared to spend a *lot* of time
> duplicating their work, and making sure you got it right and didn't
> introduce any bugs of your own in the process.

In general I agree about this. However:

BIND 8 works just fine out of the box on FreeBSD. Please check the bind8
port - it changes a few paths, changes the man format and not much else.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no


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