Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:42:51 +0000 From: "Wiley, Glen" <gwiley@verisign.com> To: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>, David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Bind in FreeBSD, security advisories Message-ID: <CE1D2CEE.E37A%gwiley@verisign.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFHbX1%2BJyHSPCccmf%2Bhk4C2b8wOcAUvxraFv7%2B04bNbbxbO33g@mail.gmail.com>
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I think you could conceptually differentiate between DNS clients and servers and remove bind without removing the DNS clients. On 7/30/13 8:39 AM, "Tom Evans" <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> wrote: >On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:55 AM, David Demelier ><demelier.david@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> For years, a lot of security advisories have been present for bind. >> I'm just guessing if it's not a good idea to remove bind from base? >> >> This will probably free by half the number of FreeBSD SA's in the >>future. >> > >Sure, but no bind in base also implies no dig, nslookup or host. > >Cheers > >Tom >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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