[Bug 291790] local-unbound: /etc/resolv.conf needed by 15.0, not wanted in 14.3, not created by upgrade

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=291790

--- Comment #2 from wbe@psr.com ---
> (In reply to Dag-Erling Smørgrav from comment #1)
> FreeBSD has always required an /etc/resolv.conf.  I don't know where you got the idea that it didn't.
[Foo, my previous reply seems to have been discarded.  Trying again...]
From:

1) (as I said in the description) the first line of /etc/resolv.conf.no which
said:

"#not when running name server on localhost; better to have no file"

2) the fact that my GENERIC system has been working just fine without an
/etc/resolv.conf since at least as far back as 12.0-RELEASE-p1 in 2019, and

3) Upon looking into this further, I see the date on resolv.conf.no is April
25, 2012 (which is most likely the date I ceased having a resolv.conf), but it
looks like I didn't switch to local-unbound until 2014, so I'm not sure what to
think.  

What is clear is that, no, resolv.conf hasn't always been required for name
resolution.  I note that man resolv.conf still says:
"    On a normally configured system, setting this file manually should not be
     necessary.  The only name server(s) to be queried will be on the local
     machine or automatically configured using DHCP or a similar mechanism,
     the domain name is determined from the host name, and the domain search
     path is constructed from the domain name.
"
which could be interpreted as either "file not required" or "the default file
provided shouldn't need to be changed".

Maybe that means it worked, but via a resolver other than the local named or
unbound?  No DHCP, though.

I'm happy leaving this bug report closed.  It's here if anyone else comes
looking.

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