Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On 8. Jul 2012, at 02:44 , Warner Losh wrote:

> 
> On Jul 7, 2012, at 5:33 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>> <<On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 16:17:53 -0700, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> said:
>> 
>>> 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?
>> 
>> 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.

The real reason you want exactly these tools in base is that otherwise you
end up rewriting tiny parts of freebsd-update etc that actually depend on
host, etc. to query SRV for SRV records.

/bz

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