Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:51:07 -0700 From: Johnson David <davidjohnson@siemens.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: SPAM: Score 5.0: Re: Bind within src-contrib Message-ID: <6F2F8FD3FBCF7A489CB18912A4807EBA015190FE@mvwcim1a.acuson.com>
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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
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