Waiting for BIND security announcement

[Rakhesh Sasidharan]

Hi!

Was going through this slightly old thread and wanted to clear somethings 
up for myself.

>>
>>> If you want to stay as close as possible to 6.2-RELEASE but also
>>> include the fixes that the security officer deems important enough to
>>> release widely, use the tag RELENG_6_2 (usually in your supfile for
>>> cvsup or csup). If you want the latest code for 6-stable, which will
>>> eventually become 6.3-RELEASE, use just RELENG_6.

I use 'freebsd-update' to keep my 6.2 installation up-to-date. So that 
means I would be following the RELENG_6_2 tag, right?

> In addition to security issues, the ports give you a greater degree of
> flexibility in how BIND is configured. If you're going to be offering
> a public name server (and by that I hope you mean authoritative, not
> recursive) on 6-stable you're probably better off using 9.4.x anyway,
> with the threading option disabled.
>
>> Are there other things in /usr/src/contrib that follow this pattern?
>
> Sure, lots. Too many for me to list without having to think hard about
> it and potentially leave something out.

This has probably been asked before, but if BIND is available in ports 
then why is it also available in contrib? Are there any benefits in 
choosing the one in contrib over the one in ports?

Regards,
Rakhesh