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

Francois Tigeot ftigeot at wolfpond.org
Thu Mar 11 03:00:20 PST 2010


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...

-- 
Francois Tigeot





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