default DNS caching name server on Fedora ?

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 09:46 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Jeu 21 juin 2012 01:09, Dan Williams a écrit :
> > I spent some time looking at this today.  NM already has plugins for
> > dnsmasq and a long-since-dead one for bind.  We can certainly add a
> > plugin for dnssec-trigger or even unbound
> 
> Which is a mess. How many DNS services do we need on a single box?
> 
> Please make NM work well with one full-featured DNS service (any one I don't
> care which one) and make this DNS service the default in Fedora so there is no
> situation like NM wants to launch DNS 1, admins needs DNS 2 because DNS 1 is
> missing features, IPA or samba wants to run DNS 3 because that's what it
> integrates with, etc

It is.  But apparently nobody is writing the One DNS Local Caching
Nameserver To Rule Them All.  dnsmasq has features unbound apparently
doesn't and the other way around.  To do useful DNSSEC you need seem to
need dnssec-trigger + unbound.  etc.  It is a mess.  But I certainly
can't solve it.

Dan

> This is getting as bad as the spellchecker situation a few years ago.
> 
> -- 
> Nicolas Mailhot
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