how to remove bind?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Nick Edwards <nick.z.edwards at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Chuck Peters <cp at ccil.org> wrote:
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>> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Nick Edwards <nick.z.edwards at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > I intend to use 9.8 from source, I removed anything that had
>> bind/host/in it
>> > that was related (I am 30 yr veteran of unix so not a newbie, but i am
>> not
>> > impressed with how ubuntu breaks things up into million tiny packages
>> > all dependant upon critical things.
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>> You are probably better off using, or rebuilding, 9.8 packages in order to
>> meet
>> all the other package dependencies.  Mr Hauke Lampe has built them...
>> https://launchpad.net/~hauke/+archive/bind9<https://launchpad.net/%7Ehauke/+archive/bind9>
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>> If you don't trust this third party repository, you can grab his
>> source packages,
>> inspect them, and rebuild them.
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> The thing is I want to avoid lock-in with what I use, if I want
> dictatorship in packages, I'd use the kids windows pc in the lounge
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> This would be a good time to get educated.  Anything that needs to look up
a name to get an IP address pretty much has to depend on parts of the DNS
system.  Bind may be only one way, but you definitely need at least one,
just to get to "google.com".  So if you deleted bind9-host or anything it
depends on, you just hosed your connection to the internet.

All of my machines have bind9-host and its dependencies, but only one serves
DNS requests and that one has the rest of the kit.  Unless you want to write
your own, that's the way to go.  The dependency system is not there to
deprive you of freedom, but to make things work and do it
while avoiding duplication.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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