From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 2 12:32:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from amsfep15-int.chello.nl (unknown [213.46.243.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A982037B403 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 12:32:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org ([62.163.96.180]) by amsfep15-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with ESMTP id <20010802180945.MDTJ17667.amsfep15-int.chello.nl@daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org>; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 20:09:45 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f72I0Gx62245; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 20:00:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 20:00:16 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" Cc: Dan Larsson , FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: BIND-9.x Message-ID: <20010802200016.H65558@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <20010702143109.K8107-100000@hq1.tyfon.net> <20010702175009.E79697@mail.webmonster.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010702175009.E79697@mail.webmonster.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Late response, but I am still catching up on DNS/BIND issues] -On [20010702 17:59], Karsten W. Rohrbach (karsten@rohrbach.de) wrote: >bind should be made a port, IMHO, and take it's way out of the base >system, being replaced by an asynchronous resolver library (there are >many). Taking BIND out of the base system as well as things like sendmail and god knows what not requires effort to get sysinstall to provide ease of install/use to install and integrate it with the system should someone desire it. [Just to let you know this had been discussed to death in the past and no-one stepped forward to take this up yet. Well, aside from the libh project, but that's future music and doesn't solve the issues we have right now. So, by all means...] -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|freebsd.org|xmach.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder, finger asmodai@ninth-circle.dnsalias.net http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/ To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message