RE: SPAM: Score 5.0: Re: Bind within src-contrib

From: Johnson David (davidjohnson_at_siemens.com)
Date: 10/12/05

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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:51:07 -0700

    From: Remko Lodder [mailto:remko@FreeBSD.org]

    > A system without resolver libraries and applications simply is not
    > maintainable by default. If you have no resolving applications in your
    > base system you will not be able to install a port or anything at all
    > that requires remote access. Why? because your machine cannot map the
    > www.freebsd.org host (example) to an ip address. Without being able to
    > do so, it simply cannot find the ip address of the host where the
    > files might live resulting in a failre to obtain the files. And well
    > without files it will be difficult to install something...

    For my own edification, are you saying that you need a local bind in order
    to access a remote nameserver? I thought a nameserver entry in resolv.conf
    was sufficient for this, allowing the resolver library to use the services
    of a remote nameserver to resolve names. I also didn't realize that the
    resolver library needed these applications to function. Why are they
    installed in /usr/bin instead of /bin?

    David
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