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

[Johnson David]

From: Remko Lodder [mailto:remko at 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