On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 4:55 AM Petr Špaček wrote:
>
> On 15. 01. 25 19:55, Lee wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM Ondřej Surý wrote:
> >> On 14. 1. 2025, at 16:56, Lee <ler...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> In other words, should I submit a bug report to the Debian bind
> >> maintainers or ISC?
> >>
> >>
> >> With both my ISC and Debian hats on, I am going to be very frank
> >> and say this has a very low priority, so unless you actually want to
> >> work on this and submit a solid correct patch with a good reasoning,
> >> there's probably nobody that is going to work on this.
> >
> > I appreciate the honesty, but I think I'm missing something?
> >
> > The good reasoning part would be quoting the RFC and the solid correct
> > patch would be stripping out everything except the two line change I
> > made to my db.local in the original post.
>
> Unfortunately not quite, BIND does not ship with any zone files.

Really?!  I installed BIND on windows however long ago when it was
supported on Windows and it came with a db.local that looked identical
to the one that came with Debian.

> It
> would have to be code change to implement
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6761#section-6.3
> inside BIND codebase, something similar to empty zones.
>
> (Or, refactor codebase to pull all special zones from files, which is
> ... well ... somewhat larger change.)
>
> Perhaps in packages it would be easier (albeit limited impact), but I
> don't maintain any of them myself.
>
> > Is anything else required other than formatting the [implicit] change
> > as a patch?
> >
> >> The itch to scratch here isn't particularly bothering.
> >
> > I understand.  Where do I submit the patch?
>
> Please start with
> https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

With db.local not being in the ISC code base it seems like I should be
submitting the bug report to Debian.
But with Ondřej Surý saying
> >> With both my ISC and Debian hats on

approval seems unlikely.

I appreciate all your help but I've taken up enough of everyone's
time; I'll quit now.

Thanks,
Lee
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