From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 4 7:57:31 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D92AA37B401 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 07:57:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CF2F43F79 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 07:57:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.strauser.com (kirk@pooh.honeypot.net [10.0.5.128]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h14FvKof053120 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:57:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BIND 8/9 References: From: Kirk Strauser Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 09:57:16 -0600 In-Reply-To: (Dan Delaney's message of "Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:03:11 -0500") Message-ID: <871y2oca3n.fsf@strauser.com> Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 2003-02-04T15:03:11Z, Dan Delaney 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. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+P+Lg5sRg+Y0CpvERArmwAJ9LCQYDWOMwq6llMOGe8gOmKbyWRACdE5RH HhT6854PI9QMvKPenqiluj4= =NY+r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message