/etc/resolv.conf changes

[John Summerfield]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:48:35 +0900
> John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 16:40:59 +0900,
>>>   John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
>>>> So far as I can tell, and Ive been using RHL and its successors since 
>>>> RHL 3.0.3, "caching nameserver" is a term invented by RH.
>>> I don't think so.
>> You mightn't, but I did a little googling.
> 
> If my memory is good the caching nameserver or cache only nameserver go
> back a good deal further, maybe even before Linux. I'd have to dig out
> old old versions of named and read the docs but I think it may even have
> been used in the documentation of the time.
> 
I just did a bit of digging around, but the ISC repo's down atm. 
Certainly "cache" and variations are appropriate, and they now use the 
term "caching nameserver" quite freely.

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