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1. Availability: Available in universe, Arch: any

2. Rationale: used by TLD's, people running authoritative name servers; fast, secure alternative to BIND9

3. Security:

   • No CANs
   • Binaries in /usr/sbin/
   • Run as daemon
   • Input data received from Internet (DNS Queries, AXFR)

4. Quality assurance:

   • upstream is active, responsive, uses bugzilla
   • no grave bugs in upstream

5. Standards compliance:

   • The package meets the FHS.

6. Dependencies:

   • all in main

Reviewers

Ian Jackson writes:

• This report is lacking many references. For example, there is not even a reference to upstream's main website! Mention of the upstream bugzilla should be accompanied by a URL. Reference should be made to the announcements from root server operators, to substantiate your claims. etc.

• Many of the bullet points from the MainInclusionReportTemplate have been just removed. The information requested by those bullet points should form part of the report; if the question is inapplicable in some way the reason should be explained.

• No consideration is given to whether this ought to replace BIND9 in main or supplement it, and if it should supplement it, what recursive server to use instead.
• No mention is made of the possible confusion with the IRIX daemon of the same name.
• Overall, this report is astonishingly short. It does not present a convincing case that the proponent has thoroughly researched the situation and reported all of their findings (both positive and negative) in the report.

Therefore, while I am a priori sympathetic to the idea of including nsd in main, and not a great fan of BIND (8 or 9), I'm afraid that at this time the inclusion request is Rejected pending rework of the report. -iwj 28.2.2007