Bind in FreeBSD, security advisories

[Wiley, Glen]

I think you could conceptually differentiate between DNS clients and
servers and remove bind without removing the DNS clients.

On 7/30/13 8:39 AM, "Tom Evans" <tevans.uk at googlemail.com> wrote:

>On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:55 AM, David Demelier
><demelier.david at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> For years, a lot of security advisories have been present for bind.
>> I'm just guessing if it's not a good idea to remove bind from base?
>>
>> This will probably free by half the number of FreeBSD SA's in the
>>future.
>>
>
>Sure, but no bind in base also implies no dig, nslookup or host.
>
>Cheers
>
>Tom
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