Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

[Simon L. B. Nielsen]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 07/03/2012 05:39, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>> Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>> The correct solution to this problem is to remove BIND from the base
>>> altogether, but I have no energy for all the whinging that would happen
>>> if I tried (again) to do that.
>>
>> I don't think there will be as much whinging as you expect.  Times have
>> changed.
>>
>> I'm willing to import and maintain unbound (BSD-licensed validating,
>> recursive, and caching DNS resolver) if you remove BIND.
>
> You've got a deal!
>
> Unbound requires ldns, which is a good thing. Part of this project would

How's the security support for ldns / unbound? For third party
software sitting in the 'frontline' that part is rather important.

> also be to enable drill so that we have a command-line dns lookup tool
> in the base, but that's trivial once you've got ldns imported.

Does that means loosing host(1) ? That would be somewhat annoying.

-- 
Simon