`<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Dan McDonald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danmcd@omniti.com" target="_blank">danmcd@omniti.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In the early days of OmniOS, people decided that most built their own version of named, and so it got moved out following the KYSTY principle.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, partly. The way this works for me is that if I'm running a public-facing<br></div><div>DNS server then I want to build and configure it myself. If I'm setting a system<br></div><div>up with a local caching-only resolver, then I would expect the system to provide<br></div><div>me with a copy of named to use.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Given you can get bind/named from any other number of sources (pkgsrc, <a href="http://ms.omniti.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ms.omniti.com</a>, sfe, more), I'm not inclined to increase the base's support burden.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Confusion arises because you supply a bind package that isn't really bind.<br></div><div>In fact, you're increasing your support burden, and the burden on users, by<br></div><div>supplying a partial package - because you have to build some bits you don't<br>ship, so you have to have a custom set of rules to split the files up, which<br></div><div>you have to maintain. And users who do use bind have the potential to get<br></div><div>confused by some bits being present but not others. Such as supplying rndc,<br></div><div>which occasionally trips me up by running the wrong one. I would have thought<br></div><div>it would be much easier to simply ship the whole package rather than a subset,<br></div><div>but that's just me.<br><br></div><div>(Oh, and I notice that tsig-keygen and its manpage are shipped as dangling links,<br></div><div>and you ship the manpage for named-rrchecker when you probably shouldn't.)<br></div></div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">-Peter Tribble<br><a href="http://www.petertribble.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.petertribble.co.uk/</a> - <a href="http://ptribble.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://ptribble.blogspot.com/</a></div>
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