Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:29:47 -0700 From: Jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD recommends not using base unbound for an authoritative server Message-ID: <5508B8EB.3050907@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPi0pssPrcJgF71AvQ-M1RZt=%2Btv=6FTGtwhi9_bX6-Q-7b7cQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPi0pssPrcJgF71AvQ-M1RZt=%2Btv=6FTGtwhi9_bX6-Q-7b7cQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Dear Chris, -------------------------------------------- From: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> Sent: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:25:09 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD recommends not using base unbound for an authoritative server > Hello, > > I use the base system sendmail instead of ports procmail because: > - documented in manual > - security problems are described in FreeBSD announcements > - easy updates with freebsd-update > - infrequent updates > > For the same reasons, I'd like to run the base system's unbound to > authoritatively host my DNS... but FreeBSD is discouraging me in > section 29.7.2 of the manual. Why the discouragement? > I use unbound from base _only_ at home for recursive DNS stuff. If I were to make it authoritative for a domain, I'd use ports or packages because they are updated more frequently over what's it base. If you're going to actually to authoritatively resolve for your domain, I think you want NSD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSD > Thank you, > > Chris -- inum: 883510009027723 sip: jungleboogie@sip2sip.info xmpp: jungle-boogie@jit.si
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