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To: Mark Felder <feld@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: May you please add alias for nslookup? 
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> > Removing src/contrib/bind9 from FreeBSD-10 will get criticised as:
> >  "Calls itself a server OS, but no name server out of the box!"
> > 
> > Please resist periodic urges to strip src/ towards just a tool set
> > capable of rebuilding itself.  Tossing expected tools (even if a
> > port is more up to date & secure) will annoy users, & potential
> > immigrants from other Unixes may try then toss FreeBSD.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Julian
> 
> I don't think anyone can explain this better than the last post DES put
> on his blog about it
> 
> http://blog.des.no/2013/09/dns-again-a-clarification/


Thanks Mark. Useful insight.

Cheers,
Julian
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Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com
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