default local DNS caching name server

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 09:56 -0600, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 10:41:54 -0400
> Chuck Anderson <cra at WPI.EDU> wrote:
> 
> > [...]  We need an independent,
> > system-wide DNS cache, and always point resolv.conf to 127.0.0.1 to
> > solve this fundamental design problem with how name resolution works
> > on a Linux system.  Windows has had a default system-wide DNS cache
> > for over a decade.  It is about time that Linux catches up.
> 
> I observe you pointedly ignore the existence of nscd (which does not
> require any changes to resolv.conf). Why is that?

nscd is ... bad

Simo.

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