Re: nm with dnsmasq?

[Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU>]

Quoting Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>:

> > Too bad!  It's really nice and useful!
>
> The functionality won't be going away (though it might hiccup a bit),
> since it definitely is still useful.  Just the communication
> implementation between NM and named.  Everyone agrees that it's nice to
> have named (or something else) as a caching nameserver that can be
> updated dynamically, but the D-Bus interface in named was never going
> upstream and wasn't very maintainable.  I think the hand-wavy new plan
> is to use other tools that ship with named to update the forwarders in a
> non-D-Bus-y way.

I've got a bunch of ISC people (including a number of Bind developers)
at my disposal this week.  Anything in particular you'd like me to ask
them or talk to them about?  I'm personal friends with the BIND9 project
manager. ;)

> Dan

-derek

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