From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 2 17:39:55 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 770BA106564A for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 17:39:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from zoom.lafn.org (zoom.lafn.ORG [206.117.18.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50B8C8FC08 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 17:39:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.1.4] (pool-71-109-144-133.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.109.144.133]) (authenticated bits=0) by zoom.lafn.org (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o32HdrCG096893 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 2 Apr 2010 10:39:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) References: <4BB51B5B.1050606@FreeBSD.org> <20100401222404.77a14a02.stas@FreeBSD.org> <4BB58AA6.1040600@yandex.ru> <20100402112736.GB4611@mail.hs.ntnu.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <20100402112736.GB4611@mail.hs.ntnu.edu.tw> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1078) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: <6E191581-F8EB-4B85-9F1D-8D2FE6DAAF10@lafn.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Doug Hardie Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 10:39:53 -0700 To: FreeBSD Current , FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1078) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at zoom.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Subject: Re: Results of BIND RFC X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:39:55 -0000 On 2 April 2010, at 04:27, Denny Lin wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 10:11:50AM +0400, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: >> On 02.04.2010 9:24, Stanislav Sedov wrote: >>> While it certainly might make sense to drop BIND out of the base, = I'm not >>> sure dropping bind tools as well from it is the best decision. How = hard >>> it will be to continue maintaining bind tools inside the base (so = the >>> critical ones like dig and nslookup still will be available), while = moving >>> the rest of it (the server itself and supporting tools) to the port? >>=20 >> Hi, All. >>=20 >> I'm agree with Stas. If it is not so hard to maintain "bind-tools" in = the=20 >> base, >> It is very useful to still having them in base system. >=20 > +1 here. Dig and some of the other tools are extremely useful and > important, so it would be nice if they were in the base system instead > of a separate port. The reason dig and nslookup are used is because you have a problem with = the internet connection. Thats a bit late to say "you need to install = the DNS tools". If you could, you wouldn't need them. Not everyone = will create a ports CD. =20=