Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:24:35 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@freebsd-services.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/mtree BSD.var.dist src/etc/namedb named.conf Message-ID: <200108231624.f7NGOZg73719@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> of "Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:18:08 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.32.0108231113230.75946-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > > They are not 'some' users, but all dialup users. We can't have > > defaults which require changes for so large group. > > Most dialup users do not configure named for local DNS. This will not > be a "dialup user" problem. Those dialup users that are smart enough > to configure named in the first place can and will know enough to get > named out of the sandbox if they need to. It doesn't really matter > wether we default to it being in a sandbox or not since named is not > enabled by default, but it is best to be on the safe side, IMHO. Changing this breaks configurations that currently say named_enable=YES in rc.conf (without any other variables). I don't believe that the benefit (none at all - as you point out, it's disabled out of the box) is worth the breakage of existing configurations. > -- > Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net > FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet > - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures > - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, and ARM architectures under development > - http://www.freebsd.org -- Brian <brian@freebsd-services.com> <brian@Awfulhak.org> http://www.freebsd-services.com/ <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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