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Date:      Tue, 04 Feb 2003 09:57:16 -0600
From:      Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BIND 8/9
Message-ID:  <871y2oca3n.fsf@strauser.com>
In-Reply-To: <C71C507A-3851-11D7-8DEA-000A27E2A402@mail.dionysia.org> (Dan Delaney's message of "Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:03:11 -0500")
References:  <C71C507A-3851-11D7-8DEA-000A27E2A402@mail.dionysia.org>

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At 2003-02-04T15:03:11Z, Dan Delaney <dionysos@mail.dionysia.org> writes:

> 1) Since BIND 8 comes in the base installation of FreeBSD (4.8 and 5), why
> is there a BIND 8 port in the ports collection?

The version in the base system is 8.3.3.  The version in ports is 8.3.4.

> 2) Why doesn't FreeBSD 5 come with BIND 9 in the base installation instead
> of BIND 8? Is there some problem with BIND 9 that I'm not aware of?

Not that I'm aware of, other than it's reputed to be a bit slower than 8.

> 3) If I install BIND 9 from the ports collection, can I uninstall BIND
> 8 off of my system?

It's my understanding that some programs depend on the resolver libraries
From=20BIND 8.  Since it takes up a relatively tiny chunk of space, I'd
suggest just leaving it in place - I did.
=2D-=20
Kirk Strauser
In Googlis non est, ergo non est.

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