From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 26 11:24:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA20330 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 11:24:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.uniserve.com (dns1-van.uniserve.com [204.244.163.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA20306 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 11:23:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.uniserve.com [204.244.210.252] by mail.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.70 #1) id 0xEf3G-0001EJ-00; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 11:23:42 -0700 Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 11:23:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: Mike Smith cc: Matt Behrens , Mike Burgett , "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: [Q] 2.2.5 bind release In-Reply-To: <199709260716.QAA00314@word.smith.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Mike Smith wrote: > > > I'm 99.9% sure it'll be 4.9.6. 8.1.1 has the strongest nameserver but its > > > resolver library is sorely lacking and would probably cause many packages > > > to break. > > > > Has FreeBSD ever use the BIND resolver library? It seems to me that the > > FreeBSD resolver is whole mix of different things, and is not 4.9.6 > > either. > > What sort of dopey question is this? Have a look at src/contrib/bind > and decide for yourself what FreeBSD uses. Just for named, nslookup, etc. The 4.9.6 resolver has no support for /etc/host.conf, and yet the FreeBSD resolver does... Please refrain from derogatory comments. They are unprofessional, and don't belong on the list. > > Besides the BIND resolver is mainly for systems that come with such a > > useless/broken resolver that anything is better (ex SunOS 4.1). > > Not by half. Really? The 4.9.6 resolver has no support for /etc/host.conf and /etc/hosts. Nearly everybody has hacked their own goodies into the resolver, and so has FreeBSD. > mike Tom