From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 30 13:13:05 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6FB5EF for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 13:13:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ve0-x229.google.com (mail-ve0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c01::229]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2BEA9221F for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 13:13:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ve0-f169.google.com with SMTP id db10so4025574veb.0 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 06:13:04 -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=sJk7STTLd50FnAHWc3/3F0jwQAPo9m0+3SxqysMrDEA=; b=ICAIhJWfRGXGKfwpBnni5QK46wO6OwUmzPpYSvBiPTlNGmx2Q8Hc/BjBTJnU98bH92 KUSHSy2g0Rgk1CCvd+doLtzOfl964Jun2n94M9uTzjQYHQgKB9kmmsJpS7wRkrz2QeD/ Sp221wrKW5xBjrpYfc/1Z74T1/9W2g0sApcGTMG88JJd5EaaYu4gecHDIu2yWAWylWac 20AVyrknR3raqZXbAULFbKExhzYYmbJkAne4OUF02EgHZrIs5YNCe3e3R5AR2SuuUCln rkM7OUVIqdpy/8AEytHGaF4Gb3Yr9jcUAKhBowJrWFncCLbQAjvBYXUnkeA8YEWhxAu8 eSBQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.221.4.4 with SMTP id oa4mr10012429vcb.70.1375189984303; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 06:13:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.59.11.225 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 06:13:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <51F7B5C7.6050008@digsys.bg> References: <1375186900.23467.3223791.24CB348A@webmail.messagingengine.com> <51F7B5C7.6050008@digsys.bg> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:13:04 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Bind in FreeBSD, security advisories From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk To: Daniel Kalchev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: freebsd-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 13:13:05 -0000 On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Daniel Kalchev wrote: > > On 30.07.13 15:21, Mark Felder wrote: > >> People don't seem upset about not having a webserver, IMAP/POP daemon, >> or LDAP server in base, so I don't understand what the big deal is about >> removing BIND. >> > > I believe the primary reason these things are not in the base system is > that they have plenty of dependencies, with possibly conflicting licenses > etc. > > If the concern is over the rare case when you absolutely >> need a DNS recursor and there are none you can reach I suppose we should >> just import Unbound. >> > > There are many and good reasons to include an fully featured name server, > or at least full recursive resolver. For example, for properly supporting > DNSSEC. > We could in theory remove the BIND's authoritative name server > executable... if that is attracting the SAs. > > The justification "reduce the number of SA's", that is, "the bad PR" is > probably not enough. Going that direction, we should consider Comrade > Stalin's maxim "FreeBSD exists, there are problems, here is the solution -- > no FreeBSD, no problems!" :-) > > Daniel > Then , there exists a new problem : "There is no FreeBSD ..." Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk