Re: Way forward with BIND 8

From: Andre Oppermann (oppermann_at_pipeline.ch)
Date: 06/06/03

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To: Sean Chittenden <seanc@FreeBSD.org>

    Sean Chittenden wrote:
    >
    > > As most of you are probably already aware, there have been two
    > > recent releases of BIND 8. Version 8.3.5 is the "bugfix, and new
    > > minor features" release on the 8.3.x branch that we've currently got
    > > in the tree already. 8.4.0 is (more or less) the "all the bug fixes
    > > from 8.3.5, plus support for IPv6 transport" version.
    > >
    > > Because there are over 14k lines of diff between the source for 8.3.5 and
    > > 8.4.0, I'm hesitant to import the latter right away. Instead, as the
    > > nominal BIND maintainer, I'm proposing the following plan:
    >
    > Ummm... I hate to beg the question, but why have a nameserver in the
    > default installation? All we need is the client resolver libraries
    > and basic CLI programs. Using DHCP or HTTP as examples: we don't need
    > dhcpd in the base, just dhclient, and with HTTP, we don't need apache
    > in our base, but we do have/need fetch. The only reason I can think
    > of that that would justify us having the nameserver in our base was if
    > our /etc/resolv.conf shipped with 127.0.0.1 as the default
    > nameserver... which it doesn't (there is no default resolv.conf, it's
    > generated based off of user input!).

    I can only support Sean with his proposal. Very wise. That would make:

     -STABLE and 4.9R stay at whatever official update de jour of BIND8.3.

     -CURRENT and 5.1R remove BIND8 from contrib. User will have to
      install from ports whatever pleases him/her (bind8.3, bind8.4, bind9,
      djbdns, maradns, ...).

     -CURRENT and 5.1R import BIND9 Resolver (IPv6 aware if you wish).

    > PS It'd probably be wise of us to create a new ports major category
    > called "dns" that why all options are easily identified.

    Agreed. Such an category has recently, with all these new DNS servers
    to choose from, become very useful. 

    -- 
Andre
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