David MacMahon wrote:
Can you please expand on that? I suppose local caching is a slight benefit, but is there anything else that makes using named preferable to just putting...nameserver ns1 nameserver ns2 nameserver ns3 ...into /etc/resolv.conf?
Changes made to resolv.conf only affect new processes, not already running processes. Changes made to the caching nameserver configuration can benefit already running processes.
-- Thomas Hood