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Date:      Tue, 30 Jul 2013 19:01:22 +0300
From:      Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bind in FreeBSD, security advisories
Message-ID:  <51F7E352.30300@digsys.bg>
In-Reply-To: <op.w01e3qhl8527sy@ronaldradial.versatec.local>
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On 30.07.13 16:44, Ronald Klop wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:32:44 +0200, Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg> 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Back to the topic :)
>>
>> My take on this is that removing BIND from the base today is.. 
>> irresponsible. First, most who use FreeBSD expect an DNS server to be 
>> readily available.
>
> Interesting. What are your statistics of 'most' based on?

Unfortunately, not much objective statistics. The bsdstats sample is 
rather small and obviously biased (towards people who would share their 
config, mostly).

I was hoping for some usable data from the Open Resolver Project 
(http://openresolverproject.org/)but there is not much useful 
information for this purpose there either. It is also very unlikely a 
pool would result in any meaningful data...

But here is an idea: Remove BIND from HEAD overnight and see how many 
will complain ;-)
If nobody complains, don't put it back in.

Daniel



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