Bug 211507
| Summary: | Hook unbound-host into build | ||||||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | Shawn Webb <shawn.webb> | ||||
| Component: | bin | Assignee: | Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des> | ||||
| Status: | Closed Not A Bug | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Some People | CC: | des, feld, koobs, pi | ||||
| Priority: | --- | Keywords: | easy, feature, needs-qa, patch | ||||
| Version: | CURRENT | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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What does unbound-host provide that ldns-host, which is already in base, doesn't? (In reply to Dag-Erling Smørgrav from comment #1) Easy DNSSEC validation. Note that unbound-host is already in base as well, but it isn't hooked up to the build. Ping? The first time I used unbound was on Linux and I discovered unbound-host which felt like a natural replacement for the bind host. When I used unbound on FreeBSD (base) I was confused about its absence and then forgot to bring it up. Can we at least hook this up so we provide a consistent experience for those migrating from Linux? I don't understand the problem. Linux, *BSD and other Nixes have always had a host(1) command. While some Linux distributions may include Unbound and unbound-host out of the box, this is a recent development and far from the rule. FreeBSD already has a perfectly good host(1) command based on the same underlying resolver library as Unbound, and I see no reason to replace it with unbound-host, nor do I see any reason to install unbound-host alongside it. DNSSEC validation and other advanced operations can be performed with either drill(1) in base or dig(1) from the bind-tools package. Alternatively, you may suggest additional features to the author of our existing host(1) implementation. I have found him to be quite responsive. (In reply to Dag-Erling Smørgrav from comment #5) Have you tried to use drill in a scripted environment for using DNSSEC-validated queries? If so, you'll know how much of a pain it is to parse drill's output securely. unbound-host's output is sane and easy to parse. So, are we going to talk about the color of the bike shed or simply merge the small patch? |
Created attachment 173165 [details] unbound-host.patch unbound-host is part of unbound and is quite a useful utility. The source for unbound-host is already provided in base. Attached is a patch that hooks up unbound-host to the build.