Re: NetworkManager & caching-nameserver/bind problem and solution

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Dan Williams">

> So, there are a couple reasons Colina and I switched to using the bind

I knew Colin was looking saucier than usual, now I know. Congratulations,
Colin! :-)

> Since nobody really _wants_ to run bind on their desktop, a quick
> conference with the glibc guys (roland, jakub, uli, etc) came up with the
> following solution:  use the 'lwresd' program from the bind packages, and
> the 'nss_lwres' module from glibc to do a light-weight caching nameserver
> that does NOT use bind code.  However, changes & updates need to be made
> to both these programs, first so that nss_lwres respects DNS TTL times,
> and second so that lwresd can actually do what we want here.  When these
> changes are done, we'll switch over to using lwresd rather than bind
> itself.  This is expected to take at least a month of on-and-off work.

That sounds really good - we'll try and pump up the testing audience for
you, if not help out directly (we're just kicking in with our freezes, so
it'll only get into our unsupported 'universe' set for hoary).

Thanks heaps for the update Dan. :-)

- Jeff

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