From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 12 17:51:16 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9854816A41F for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:51:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from davidjohnson@siemens.com) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E8743D45 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:51:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from davidjohnson@siemens.com) Received: from mvwcim1a.acuson.com ([157.226.95.42]:3992 helo=mvwcim1a.ww005.siemens.net) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1EPkl1-0005Fo-3a for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:51:15 -0700 Received: by mvwcim1a.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:51:15 -0700 Message-ID: <6F2F8FD3FBCF7A489CB18912A4807EBA015190FE@mvwcim1a.acuson.com> From: Johnson David To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:51:07 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:03:55 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: RE: SPAM: Score 5.0: Re: Bind within src-contrib 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: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:51:16 -0000 From: Remko Lodder [mailto:remko@FreeBSD.org] > A system without resolver libraries and applications simply is not > maintainable by default. If you have no resolving applications in your > base system you will not be able to install a port or anything at all > that requires remote access. Why? because your machine cannot map the > www.freebsd.org host (example) to an ip address. Without being able to > do so, it simply cannot find the ip address of the host where the > files might live resulting in a failre to obtain the files. And well > without files it will be difficult to install something... For my own edification, are you saying that you need a local bind in order to access a remote nameserver? I thought a nameserver entry in resolv.conf was sufficient for this, allowing the resolver library to use the services of a remote nameserver to resolve names. I also didn't realize that the resolver library needed these applications to function. Why are they installed in /usr/bin instead of /bin? David