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

Garrett Wollman wollman at bimajority.org
Sat Jul 7 23:33:47 UTC 2012


<<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....

-GAWollman


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