Re: detecting resolv.conf changes

[Howard Chu <hyc symas com>]

Roy Marples wrote:
> Howard Chu wrote:
> > Understood. At any rate, it works for me; I run by own build from git
> > with this patch (plus the no-scanning-while-connected patch). (It's far
> > better than what I used to have to do, rewriting BIND's forwarders.conf
> > file on every interface change and restarting it. And using a laptop
> > without a local caching nameserver is just a bad idea, particularly when
> > you're using a GSM modem and every byte costs 1.5cents.)
>
> NM supports resolvconf.
> My implementation (openresolv) can write out configuration files for
> BIND, dnsmasq and PowerDNS Recursor. With dnsmasq and DBus, the local
> resolver is never restarted with is even better :)

I guess you missed the discussion on this list the first time I posted this 
stuff. Writing new resolv.conf files is not a good way to go. You can pick up 
on this from the archives if you want.

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