Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 10:01:04 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, =?UTF-8?Q?Dag=2DErling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Subject: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze? Message-ID: <CAOjFWZ5ikPz_yDhEQutiXVG354qRHYJTn-M_S4Cx-=YRgFP7eQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAC8HS2Hx%2BqV1zYSzyM6wYzbyA6BStd3HEwc-VDhv40DHM=qCvw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2BQLa9B-Dm-=hQCrbEgyfO4sKZ5aG72_PEFF9nLhyoy4GRCGrA@mail.gmail.com> <4FF2E00E.2030502@FreeBSD.org> <86bojxow6x.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4FF35864.5030109@FreeBSD.org> <CAC8HS2Hx%2BqV1zYSzyM6wYzbyA6BStd3HEwc-VDhv40DHM=qCvw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Simon L. B. Nielsen <simon@freebsd.org> wro= te: > 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 happe= n >>>> 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. There's a version of host based on unbound. At least, there's an unbound-host package for Debian Linux: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=3Dunbound-host --=20 Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com
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