default DNS caching name server on Fedora ?

Wed Jun 20 16:57:50 UTC 2012

On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 12:21 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Simo Sorce (simo at redhat.com) said: 
> > Of course for this to work properly we need some level of integration
> > between Network Manager and the DNS caching server so that the dynamic
> > configurations can be pushed in/out when the related networks come
> > up/down.
> > 
> > Discuss.
> 
> man NetworkManager.conf:
> 
> ...
>        dns=plugin1,plugin2, ...
>               List DNS plugin names separated by ','. DNS plugins are used to
>               provide  local caching nameserver functionality (which speeds up
>               DNS queries) and to push DNS data to applications that use it.
> 
>               Available plugins:
> 
>               dnsmasq
>                      this plugin uses dnsmasq to provide local caching name‐
>                      server functionality.
> ...
> 
> (Note: haven't tried this.)