Re: Dig on openbsd too old ?

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>On 2019-07-18, Mik J <mikydevel@yahoo.fr> wrote:
>> Thank you Otto for your quick answer.
>>
>> Le jeudi 18 juillet 2019 ?? 08:54:02 UTC+2, Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net> 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?