netbsd-9 nsd(8) borken?

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

Hi,

I have a need for an authoritative nameserver (actually several, there 
is a netbsd-5 named instance to replace), and so built netbsd-9 with 
MKNSD=1, since the base nsd(8) will set up and run in a chroot, unlike 
the pkgsrc version.

The result is less than convincing:


% head /etc/nsd/causeuse.org
; $Id: causeuse.org,v 1.15 2022/09/12 15:58:10 hf Exp hf $
;
; causeuse.org master
;
$ORIGIN causeuse.org.
$TTL 86400      ; 1 day
;
@               IN      SOA     ns2.causeuse.org. hostmaster.causeuse.org. (
                                2022091201 ; serial
                                28800      ; refresh (8 hours)

	-- this zone file is in production.

% /usr/sbin/nsd -v
NSD version 4.1.27
Written by NLnet Labs.

Copyright (C) 2001-2006 NLnet Labs.  This is free software.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

	-- what they said.

% /usr/sbin/nsd-checkzone causeuse.org /etc/nsd/causeuse.org
[2022-09-14 17:10:55.439] nsd-checkzone[12565]: error: 
/etc/nsd/causeuse.org:5: zero label length
[2022-09-14 17:10:55.440] nsd-checkzone[12565]: error: 
/etc/nsd/causeuse.org:5: syntax error
[2022-09-14 17:10:55.440] nsd-checkzone[12565]: error: 
/etc/nsd/causeuse.org:52: zone configured as 'causeuse.org' has no SOA 
record.
zone causeuse.org file /etc/nsd/causeuse.org has 3 errors

	-- no search engine hits for "zero label length" "nsd"
           outside of the source code.

% /usr/pkg/sbin/nsd-checkzone causeuse.org /etc/nsd/causeuse.org
zone causeuse.org is ok
%

	-- pkgsrc nsd is 4.6.0


Am I right in assuming that nobody uses the netbsd-9 nsd(8), since 
nobody appears to have noticed the bit rot? Yes, I know that it's not in 
the default build, but still...

Or is there any perspective for an update?

Should I send-pr?

Cheerio,
Hauke

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