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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Tue, 22 May 2001 00:17:10 -0400, Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> said:

> Can anyone realistically see bind or ntpd being modified to take
> advantage of it when running on FreeBSD?

Yes, given that it results in substantial simplification and (in the
case of named) enables non-privileged operation even in the presence
of dynamically-configured network interfaces.

-GAWollman


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