Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before
9.1 code freeze?)
Dan Lukes
dan at obluda.cz
Sun Jul 8 22:44:33 UTC 2012
On 07/08/12 23:55, Doug Barton:
> On 07/08/2012 07:41, Dan Lukes wrote:
...
> Sorry, you're not understanding what is being proposed. Specifically
> you're confusing the system stub resolver (the bit that's compiled into
> libc, and used by binaries) and the resolving name server (BIND). No one
> is proposing to replace the stub.
libc stub resolver is BIND code based, so I assumed that arguments
against BIND apply to it as well.
I'm happy it's not true.
In my humble opinion, no resolving name server need to be part of base
at all. We have no DHCP, VPN, RADIUS, WWW, ... server in the base as well.
Thank you for clarifying.
Dan
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