Why is named started, but not being used?

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> said:
> The excuse I've heard so far for NM's extensive brain damage is that
> it's only designed to support typical laptop usage, but how would that
> scenario include forcibly starting a doubtless-misconfigured local
> named?

IIRC, the idea is to use named as a local caching DNS server.  This is
better than fiddling with resolv.conf (as apps tend to only look at that
once) or nscd (which doesn't know TTLs).
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.