From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 12 8: 8:34 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 B1EBF37B401 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:08:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF0E443F75 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:08:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2CG8UTb007415; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:08:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E6F5BC8.1020308@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:09:44 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jorge Mario G." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why BIND and sendmail installed by default? References: <1598.192.168.0.4.1047484743.squirrel@mail.linopryne.com> In-Reply-To: <1598.192.168.0.4.1047484743.squirrel@mail.linopryne.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Jorge Mario G. wrote: > Hi there > I've seen that BIND and sendmail (till 4.7-RELEASE havent tested 5.0 yet) > are installed by default my question is simple... WHY? Partly for historical reasons. Also, sendmail and BIND do more than just mail|DNS server. Sendmail is used by most local mailers for sending mail, even if it's not configured as a "server". Unlike bloatware such as Outlook that includes it's own SMTP code. I belive (but I could be wrong here) that BIND code is implemented in the resolver, thus it is required for _any_ DNS lookups to succeed. Also, running a caching DNS server is a good idea for anyone (even a workstation) as it speeds Internet access up in most cases. Most of the speed issues I have with Adelphia is how long it takes to resolve DNS to IPs. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message