Hello, The recent change of ISC/bind licensing from BSD to MPL for the next release has provided us with an opportunity to re-evaluate the preferred daemon status for NetBSD and DNS resolution. Board/Core have decided not to import the next version of bind, and instead import the current version of unbound/nsd.
If you feel that this creates problems for you, let us know. Also you should be able to use newer versions of bind from pkgsrc. We are not planning to de-support or remove bind for NetBSD-8. Best, christos
