> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013, at 8:32, Daniel Kalchev wrote: >> >> >> This is very much an situation like replacing gcc with clang/llvm. >> However, in the case of BIND we have no licensing problems, stability >> problems, performance problems etc --- just concerns that BIND generates >> many SAs -- which might be actually good indicator, as it demonstrates >> that BIND is worked on. >> > > There's a man with a name whose initials match DJB that would strongly > disagree. Now he's not always the best person to reference, but he's > made a succinct point with his own software, whether or not you like > using it. > > Unbound/NSD are suitable replacements if we really need something in > base, and they have been picked up by OpenBSD for a good reason -- > clean, secure, readable, maintainable codebases and their use across the > internet and on the ROOT servers is growing. > >> I personally see no reason to remove BIND from base. If someone does not >> want BIND in their system, they could always use the WITHOUT_BIND build >> switch. > > I'd be inclined to agree if it wasn't such a wholly insecure chunk of > code. You don't see people whining about Sendmail in base when they > prefer Postfix or Exim, but Sendmail doesn't have a new exploit every > week. You do tend to need an MTA for getting messages off the system > more than you need a local recursor/cache, but at least it's not causing > you maintenance headaches. If you consider the possibility that a large > enough percentage of users really desire a local recursor/cache it > should be our duty to give them the best option available.
+1 Sorry to do that. But I simply couldn't have expressed it better, myself. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"