Re: BIND DNS from base vs. pkg

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Steve Rikli <sr%genyosha.net@localhost> writes:

> I'm planning to stand up another NetBSD server for DNS and other network
> services (NTP, dhcp, tftp, etc.) in the lab, so I thought I'd take a
> look at the state of things; this is amd64 running fairly recent 11.0
> and packages:
>
> $ /usr/sbin/named -v
> BIND 9.20.24 (Stable Release) <id:e5d43f1>
>
> $ pkgin search bind-9
> bind-9.18.50nb2      Berkeley Internet Name Daemon implementation of DNS, version 9.18

There is now (not in Q3) a 9.20 package, but it is labeled as missing
blocklist patches.

> While it's not a big problem to switch BIND instance, given the status
> quo I'm inclined to deploy with the base BIND and carry on as I've done
> in the past.

Using base seems to me like a good plan.  NetBSD 10 has 9.18 which is
bind-LTS but obviously 11 is better, with one fewer upgrade over any
system lifetime.  And it's 9.18.24, which is not 9.18.50.

I don't see any reason to use 9.18 from pkgsrc on NetBSD 11.