Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

[Freddie Cash]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Simon L. B. Nielsen <simon at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 07/03/2012 05:39, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>>> Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>>> The correct solution to this problem is to remove BIND from the base
>>>> altogether, but I have no energy for all the whinging that would happen
>>>> if I tried (again) to do that.
>>>
>>> I don't think there will be as much whinging as you expect.  Times have
>>> changed.
>>>
>>> I'm willing to import and maintain unbound (BSD-licensed validating,
>>> recursive, and caching DNS resolver) if you remove BIND.
>>
>> You've got a deal!
>>
>> Unbound requires ldns, which is a good thing. Part of this project would
>
> How's the security support for ldns / unbound? For third party
> software sitting in the 'frontline' that part is rather important.
>
>> also be to enable drill so that we have a command-line dns lookup tool
>> in the base, but that's trivial once you've got ldns imported.
>
> Does that means loosing host(1) ? That would be somewhat annoying.

There's a version of host based on unbound.  At least, there's an
unbound-host package for Debian Linux:

http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=unbound-host

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Freddie Cash
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