how to remove bind?

[Nick Edwards]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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.
>>>
>>> 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>
>>>
>>> If you don't trust this third party repository, you can grab his
>>> source packages,
>>> inspect them, and rebuild them.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> 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.
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>
Wrong, it is only called bind9-host on ubuntu, and perhaps debian? I suggest
you have very limited OS experience.
I have used multiple OS's over the years, luckily, none of them break up
simple packages in as many pieces.



> 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.
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