From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 19 16:25:40 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 44BCCAB5 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 16:25:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-x231.google.com (mail-lb0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c04::231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C3A26A36 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 16:25:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lbbsy1 with SMTP id sy1so56770511lbb.1 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:25:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=BmXqkLv38WwTBxRqVrTEMLfQ51lStqpZf3aBWvTR0oQ=; b=zhQxWOr9i6dGsVKWWB9/lQgviz8hU6J7rtJAiOj47WUKkNW88fNK+PdJBdHUdjwW2i 1IiaHHYdBcX4zrrwBSiEtm7bYed1QzB7vgoRJeIQ6qakSNf9IJdtP494RhwlnO8O2yRj XAPSjV8sww+yH0TgwTN2bYeM2t8WtQc84s4qWTFisuyNqObZUEYZ73x/w+xlDi0rmRbb cb7xxC0u9Te5OayNgqAIz/u6/npFypOp1qr5FmZsgBrkKRZW23h14Lu6WqCS0tfh2yGE sP9hv2SgjBu/0ji8pfwqsMqoTo+wbxnpHw3rKYJ0bCe5rRBI1e1dpmTXrRLSoo7F0T1V EvpQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.131.66 with SMTP id ok2mr66203581lbb.51.1426782337255; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:25:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.25.212.1 with HTTP; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:25:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150319010245.17075fe5.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <5508B8EB.3050907@gmail.com> <20150319010245.17075fe5.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:25:37 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD recommends not using base unbound for an authoritative server From: Chris Stankevitz To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: reebsd-questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 16:25:40 -0000 Poly, Thank you for your thorough response. On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Polytropon wrote: >> - infrequent updates > > What does "infrequent" mean? What I was referring to here was: I subscribe to freebsd-announce, which as I'm sure you know, sends out an email whenever the OS changes. It explains why it changed, who is affected, etc. These emails (and their associated software releases) are "infrequent" in that I get them less than once per month. I imagine they are infrequent because of the quality of the software in the base OS and not because the OS team is slow an lazy. (although you point out that RELEASE updates are delayed and could leave my system vulnerable... this is scary...) Compare this to the ports tree. I do not get emails whenever there is a change to the ports tree, but I imagine if I did the emails would arrive more frequently than ~1/month and I imagine they would not be chock full of info about the changes, why they were made, who is affected, etc. That being said... I am eager to learn more about the tool you mentioned: pkg audit. Sounds like it provides an approximation to the freebsd-announce messages.... but for the ports vs the base os. Chris