Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 17:51:52 +0100 From: "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, =?UTF-8?Q?Dag=2DErling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze? Message-ID: <CAC8HS2Hx%2BqV1zYSzyM6wYzbyA6BStd3HEwc-VDhv40DHM=qCvw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FF35864.5030109@FreeBSD.org> References: <CA%2BQLa9B-Dm-=hQCrbEgyfO4sKZ5aG72_PEFF9nLhyoy4GRCGrA@mail.gmail.com> <4FF2E00E.2030502@FreeBSD.org> <86bojxow6x.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4FF35864.5030109@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 07/03/2012 05:39, Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote: >> Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> writes: >>> The correct solution to this problem is to remove BIND from the base >>> altogether, but I have no energy for all the whinging that would happen >>> if I tried (again) to do that. >> >> I don't think there will be as much whinging as you expect. Times have >> changed. >> >> I'm willing to import and maintain unbound (BSD-licensed validating, >> recursive, and caching DNS resolver) if you remove BIND. > > You've got a deal! > > Unbound requires ldns, which is a good thing. Part of this project would How's the security support for ldns / unbound? For third party software sitting in the 'frontline' that part is rather important. > also be to enable drill so that we have a command-line dns lookup tool > in the base, but that's trivial once you've got ldns imported. Does that means loosing host(1) ? That would be somewhat annoying. --=20 Simon
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