Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

[Warner Losh]

On Jul 7, 2012, at 5:33 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 16:17:53 -0700, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> said:
> 
>> BIND in the base today comes with a full-featured local resolver
>> configuration, which I'm confident that Dag-Erling can do for unbound
>> (and which I would be glad to assist with if needed). Other than that,
>> what integration are you concerned about?
> 
> The utilities (specifically host(1) and dig(1)) are the only
> user-visible interfaces I care about.  I don't see any need for there
> to be an authoritative name server in the base system.  So long as the
> resolver works properly and does DNSsec validation....

The only reason I want it in the base system is that ports don't cross build very well, but the base system does.  That's a weak +1 for keeping something in the base system, but I'll be the first to admit it is a second or third tier argument at best.

Warner