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Date:      Sat, 7 Jul 2012 20:44:59 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>
Cc:        "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)
Message-ID:  <07345CE5-EE3A-413D-84BC-C9DA63FCBB9E@bsdimp.com>
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On Jul 7, 2012, at 5:33 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 16:17:53 -0700, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> =
said:
>=20
>> BIND in the base today comes with a full-featured local resolver
>> configuration, which I'm confident that Dag-Erling can do for unbound
>> (and which I would be glad to assist with if needed). Other than =
that,
>> what integration are you concerned about?
>=20
> The utilities (specifically host(1) and dig(1)) are the only
> user-visible interfaces I care about.  I don't see any need for there
> to be an authoritative name server in the base system.  So long as the
> resolver works properly and does DNSsec validation....

The only reason I want it in the base system is that ports don't cross =
build very well, but the base system does.  That's a weak +1 for keeping =
something in the base system, but I'll be the first to admit it is a =
second or third tier argument at best.

Warner




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