Replacing BIND with unbound

[Doug Barton]

On 08/06/2012 13:23, Vitaly Magerya wrote:
> Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 07/07/2012 16:33, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>>> The utilities (specifically host(1) and dig(1)) are the only
>>> user-visible interfaces I care about.
> [...]
>> ldns (a dependency of unbound) comes with drill, which is a dig-alike
>> tool. I'd like to see us produce a host-alike based on ldns as well,
> 
> If there still is interest, I've got just that at [1]. This tool,
> ldns-host, implements all the options of bind9-host (except for
> debugging ones), and produces close (and often identical) output.
> 
> There's a list of differences between ldns-host and bind9-host
> in the man page (see [2]); most items can be fixed if people
> will request for it. Some more exotic situations where not tested
> though, so that list is only partial.
> 
> [1] http://hg.tx97.net/ldns-host/file/
> [2] http://manweb.tx97.net/http://hg.tx97.net/ldns-host/raw-file/tip/ldns-host.1

If I didn't already say so, this is awesome! :)

Dag-Erling, do you have a timeline for getting started on the
ldns/unbound import?


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