Suggestion: Removal of BIND from base / Import alternative DNS Library ldns / import dig replacement drill

Constantine A. Murenin mureninc at gmail.com
Thu Mar 11 17:42:38 PST 2010


On 11 March 2010 20:00, Francois Tigeot <ftigeot at wolfpond.org> wrote:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
>> Jan Lentfer wrote:
>>  > Mathieu Launay wrote:
>>  > > Why do not put unbound (from NLNet labs) into base to serve this
>>  > > purpose?
>>  >
>>  > OpenBSD has picked NSD for that.
>>  > http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/nsd/
>>  >
>>  > Anyway I am open for that discussion also. But anyway you could easily
>>  > install anything you like from pkgsrc.
>>
>> Not that my opinion really matters, but ...
>>
>> As long as you don't pick djbdns, I'm happy with anything.  :-)
>
> AFAIK, djbdns doesn't implement DNSSEC, so there is a good chance it will
> slowly die in the future.
>
> Root servers should begin to serve a signed .arpa zone beginning on march
> 15...

Yet another “BSD is dying” prediction? :-p

http://www.google.com/search?q=dnssec+site:cr.yp.to
http://cr.yp.to/talks.html#2009.08.10
http://cr.yp.to/talks/2009.08.10/slides.pdf

C.






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