Bind in FreeBSD, security advisories

[Chris Ross]

On Jul 30, 2013, at 10:07 , Mark Felder wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013, at 8:42, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
>> 
>> and every contrib part which is removed, detracts from this.
> 
> And every contrib part that is added to base is another piece of
> software that rots for the life of a major release and ends up getting
> replaced by frustrated endusers with the latest in ports…

  I do generally agree with this point, but it's not "every contrib part".
Many contrib additions can be useful to a majority, and not rotting
software.  Some will use more recent replacements from ports, others
won't, but it's not always bad.

> The tight integration of the base system that everyone appreciates and
> respects is far below high-level software like BIND.

  I agree with this point too, however I, like others have voiced, feel
strongly that diagnostic [client] tools like host and/or dig are not at
all "high-level software" and _need_ to be present in a base
system.  Whosever they are.

                           - Chris