>From [email protected] Sat Jul 20 >06:29:27 2019 >Delivered-To: [email protected] >X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ >To: [email protected] >From: Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Dig on openbsd too old ? >Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 12:29:04 -0000 (UTC) >References: <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (OpenBSD) >List-Help: <mailto:[email protected]?body=help> >List-ID: <misc.openbsd.org> >List-Owner: <mailto:[email protected]> >List-Post: <mailto:[email protected]> >List-Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]?body=sub%20misc> >List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]?body=unsub%20misc> >X-Loop: [email protected] >Precedence: list >Sender: [email protected] > >On 2019-07-18, Mik J <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thank you Otto for your quick answer. >> >> Le jeudi 18 juillet 2019 ?? 08:54:02 UTC+2, Otto Moerbeek >> <[email protected]> a ??crit : >> >> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 06:41:12AM +0000, Mik J wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> I'm using Openbsd 6.5 and have DiG 9.4.2-P2 provided with it.This version >>> seems to be old (from 2009) but I couldn't find exactly when it dates. >>> However new DNS records appeared in 2013 such as CAA in RFC 6844When I dig >>> the CAA record dig returns NXDOMAIN >>> insteadhttps://dns.google.com/query?name=google.com&type=CAA&dnssec=true >>> Do you think we could have an updated version of dig in Openbsd base ? >>> Thank you >>> >>> $ dig CAA google.com >> >> Yes, known. It is on my list to update it, but I don't know when I >> will get to it. > >BIND switched license to MPL, AFAIK this is no good for base. Personally >I would be happier to just remove it than update to a still-old version >as it gets in the way of running something current ..
Remove it? Unlikely. There are many situations where people prefer older+sufficient software rather than running pkg_add. What is missing in the conversation is the normal process of "oh look a bug, can we try to fix it". Someone want to take a shot at it?
