On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 02:36:25PM +0000, Russell Sutherland wrote:
>
> Hi Otto,
>
> Thanks for maintaining the dnsdist port. We run it on OpenBSD for
> DNS routing at the University of Toronto, and the 2.1.2 package has
> been working well with a Lua configuration.
>
> I was hoping to move to the YAML configuration format introduced in
> dnsdist 2.0, but the packaged build doesn't include it:
>
> # dnsdist --check-config -C /etc/dnsdist/dnsdist.yml
> msg="Fatal error" error="YAML configuration is not supported by
> this build of dnsdist" subsystem="main" ...
>
> As I understand it, the YAML support is written in Rust and is an
> optional build feature, which presumably explains why it is off.
>
> Would it be feasible to enable it in the port, either by default or
> as a separate flavour (for example "yaml", alongside "h3")? I realize
> that pulling in Rust as a build dependency limits the architectures
> it can build on, so a flavour might be the cleaner option.
>
> I'm happy to test a diff or a snapshot package on: 8.0 i386 and report back.
>
> Thanks,
The h3 flavor already uses Rust (for quic and http3 support) and also
enables yaml. I decided not to do that on the "regular" flavor, so it
can compile on more platforms.
-Otto
>
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