[Pkg-pdns-maintainers] Proposal – Provides: authoritative-name-server, recursive-name-server

[Christian Hofstaedtler]

Ondřej,

* Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org> [131022 16:05]:
> since we now have many DNS servers in Debian, I am proposing that the
> authoritative name server packages (bind9, pdns-server, knot, nsd,
> gdnsd) add
> 
> Provides: authoritative-name-server and 
> 
> and unbound + bind9 + pdns-resolver add:
> Provides: recursive-name-server

What about dnsmasq?


> Does that sound like a good idea to you all?

While I think this is generally a fine idea, I don't see how this
should work in practice.

Packages requiring authoritative-name-server won't get a common
interface; each nameserver daemon has a different configuration
method, and may not even read data in the same format as other
packages sharing this virtual package name.
While port 53 might be a shared interface, it's of no use when it
doesn't return the expected data.

I see how this could work for recursive-name-server, when packages
would be required to listen on localhost:53, but I see enough
installations where a recursive nameserver is explicitly configured
to _not_ listen on localhost.


Maybe you saw another usecase - please elaborate :-)


  C.

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