On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> wrote:
I'm just gonna make NM use a local caching nameserver (which means
dnsmasq) by default at some point soon. People that don't want it can
turn it off.
When thinking about this, there's a rather obvious patch here that
really should have been made 5+ years ago...make it an option! And
this actually makes some sense, e.g. if NetworkManager writes out a
static configuration, then there's no need to stat() on it since we
can assume it won't change. (This does still screw over server admins
who hand-edit it, but...)
glibc and NetworkManager patches attached.
(I'm totally in favor of the dnsmasq approach too since the OS
desperately needs DNS caching too, but this is a simple patch that
doesn't conceptually conflict).