BIND in the base (Was: Re: tmux(1) in base)

[Peter Wemm]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi at gmail.com> wrote:
> ... and what about sendmail??
> couldn't it be easily replaced by DMA
>
> Regards
> Gonzalo

I just went and had a quick at dma's info.  It looks almost exactly
like what I've been saying for ages we should have in the base instead
of a heavyweight MTA.

"It accepts mails from locally
installed Mail User Agents (MUA) and delivers the mails either locally
or to a remote destination.  Remote delivery includes several features
like TLS/SSL support and SMTP authentication."

On the subject of host/dig/nslookup.  We had an old 'host' and
'nslookup' that were replaced with bind's heavyweight versions.
Perhaps those could be revived and refreshed?

The functionality of 'host' that I care about is:

peter at overcee[10:19AM]~-1177> host www.yahoo.com
www.yahoo.com is an alias for www.wa1.b.yahoo.com.
www.wa1.b.yahoo.com is an alias for www-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com.
www-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com has address 209.131.36.158

peter at overcee[10:31AM]~-1178> host yahoo.com
yahoo.com has address 209.191.93.53
yahoo.com has address 69.147.114.224
yahoo.com has address 209.131.36.159
yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 g.mx.mail.yahoo.com.
yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 a.mx.mail.yahoo.com.
yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 b.mx.mail.yahoo.com.
yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 c.mx.mail.yahoo.com.
yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 d.mx.mail.yahoo.com.
yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 e.mx.mail.yahoo.com.
yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 f.mx.mail.yahoo.com.

peter at overcee[10:31AM]~-1179> host 209.131.36.158
158.36.131.209.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer f1.www.vip.sp1.yahoo.com.

In other words, it's going to have to talk to the res_* functions in
libc again instead of bind's replacement.
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