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* Re: [gentoo-dev] ISC-Bind inconsistancy
@ 2003-03-14 23:48 99% Stroller
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From: Stroller @ 2003-03-14 23:48 UTC (permalink / raw
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"Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote
>
> ... bind-tools ... bind itself
> I am a little unclear why there are two separate packages in
> the first place.

Whilst I can't comment on your other points, I supect that the short answer to this last is because "that's the way that Berkeley (?) package them'.

I can see good reason for having 2 separate packages: Joe User buys his DNS hosting service from ISP.net, as he lives out in the country & can't run a 24/7 Bind server (his servers are at another.isp.net & bigISP.com). He wants to query his DNS config periodically, however, to check it, and so he can make requests to customer.admin@ISP.net; consequently Joe User needs Bind-tools, but not Bind itself.

HTH,

Stroller.



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