[arch-general] BIND, systemd-resolved, and nscd

[frederik at ofb.net]

> > Well, prior to the recent BIND releease, the default had been "yes" -
> > which means "no" for me.
> ...
> 2. I'm not sure what you mean by the yes-means-no syntax.  The URL that you provided seems pretty cut and dry.
> ...
>   > dnssec-validation yes; #does validate (requires a trusted-keys or managed-keys statement, which you DO NOT have in your example)

I think you just answered your own question. Except perhaps that the
word "requires" is a bit misleading, because when you don't have that
statement then 'named' still starts up and responds to queries, it
just doesn't do DNSSEC validation. So 'named' itself does not
"require" it.

Your first email wondered if I didn't want "no" instead of "yes" and I
was explaining that they are the same for my configuration, which is
based on the default named.conf that ships with bind, which doesn't
have a trusted-keys or managed-keys statement. In other words, they
are also the same for the default configuration. As I explained, "yes"
was the default validation setting and I was trying to restore the old
behavior, which doesn't do validation. I was wondering why you had
asked this question, if you had some kind of expert knowledge that I
didn't have - but it looks like we are learning about this together,
since you are referring to the URL I provided.

The purpose of my original post was to ask whether this sort of change
in the defaults of an important package belongs in the Arch news page
(https://www.archlinux.org/news/), but I haven't received an answer
yet. I'm open to advice on question-asking or if this is the right
forum or whatever.

Thanks,

Frederick