FreeBSD recommends not using base unbound for an authoritative server

[Jungle Boogie]

Dear Chris,
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From: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz at gmail.com>
Sent:  Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:25:09 -0700
To: freebsd-questions at 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


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