From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 12 11:32:58 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 1979B37B401 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:32:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from linopryne.com (adslh185.cofs.net [207.87.240.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3496F43FBD for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:32:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from list@linopryne.com) Received: (qmail 68512 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2003 19:33:07 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO linopryne.com) (127.0.0.1) by 0 with SMTP; 12 Mar 2003 19:33:07 -0000 Received: from 192.168.0.4 (SquirrelMail authenticated user list@linopryne.com) by mail.linopryne.com with HTTP; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:33:07 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <1065.192.168.0.4.1047497587.squirrel@mail.linopryne.com> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:33:07 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: why BIND and sendmail installed by default? From: "Jorge Mario G." To: In-Reply-To: <3E6F7166.4090803@potentialtech.com> References: <1943.192.168.0.4.1047488729.squirrel@mail.linopryne.com> <3E6F7166.4090803@potentialtech.com> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.10) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 >> 2. for bill: >> I dont think there is BIND conde involved in the resolver OK, BIND has nothing to do with the resolver :-) > > Well, we can both think about it, or you could check. > >> 3. for peter: >> I always go with the CUSTOM install > > I think he's talking about FreeBSD 5, which I know for a fact no longer > includes perl, and may have other things (like sendmail) removed as > well. > > You know, you could start this agument with just about any component > other than the kernel ... "Why is traceroute installed by default, I > don't always want to do packet sniffing?" ... "Why is ping installed by > default?" Many Linux distros don't have these tools. > > The answer is: "Because that's how FreeBSD is distributed" Some of > these questions have already been raised and the default changed > (perl for example). The sendmail issue has been asked before as > well. The reasons are primarily historical, and there are ways to > disable/replace/remove those tools. > > Does that answer your question? > and ummmmm sort of... , but I mean! we all know that BIND and sendmail are buggy and come with a full set of security flows. Also if "historical" things have been changed why not this?? sounds like a decent idea no? my programmaing skills are very basic but I'll check that out Thanks for at least showin interest Jorge To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message