BIND will completely drop D-BUS dynamic forwarders table support

[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:00:27AM +0100, Adam Tkac wrote:
> 
> For clarify what exactly discussed feature did (nothing more). When you get
> nameservers from DHCP dhcdbd tells to named through DBUS that named
> should use them as forwarders and NetworkManager sets 127.0.0.1 as
> default nameserver in resolv.conf. So you could use named as
> caching-nameserver on laptops and you don't have to edit named.conf
> always when you move to different network. I think it makes sence add
> this feature to some light DNS server but not into named. It's simply
> too heavy-weight solution. Also upstream will never accept such feature
> because this is not primary BIND mission. Domain name modification
> should be done with nsupdate utility through DDNS update message which
> is part of DNS protocol.

If there is a design flaw, as you seem to be implying, dropping it as
soon as possible is, in my opinion, the best thing to do (at least in
fedora ;-), to ease as much as possible the transition path.

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Pat