First off, ISC must be given credit for supplying the BIND DNS and DHCP servers. They’ve been powering a lot of the internet and private networking for many years, including this server. But the time has come to change!
I’m now using nsd as my public authoritative name server and unbound as my private recursive name server. This results in config files much easier to setup and hopefully more security as nsd is very small leaving less room for public exploits.
openresolv has been imported into NetBSD, which allows more than one daemon to update /etc/resolv.conf sanely and configure local nameservers for enhanced DNS, especially if running on a VPN. dhcpcd already uses resolvconf when available and dhclient in NetBSD has been patched to use it.
This is important for NetBSD, as many packages support resolvconf, but only when /sbin/resolvconf exists. This meant that a lot of packages that supported resolvconf, failed to work with any resolvconf implementation from pkgsrc.
I learned an important lesson about being a parent whilst on holiday- you don’t actually have a holiday as you’re just looking after the kids somewhere else!
Still, it was very enjoyable. 24-28 deg C with only one day where it was too windy to sunbathe :)
I’ve done almost zero coding since I got back as I’ve been involved in meetings so damned much. This is good though, as we now have a very clear idea on how to achieve World Domination!
Well, after all that happened with work and the recent and very successful business trip, I think I deserve one :D
So it’s off to the Costa Del Sol for 2 glorious weeks!
To appease the masses, dhcpcd-5.1.3 was released which will hopefully find its way into NetBSD-5.1. Try not to find any new bugs whilst I’m away ;)
For a week! Another business trip, again to Chicago. Maybe the next trip will be to another part as this will have been 3 times now!
Still, it’s a nice city :)
Try not to report too many bugs with my software until I get back ;)
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