Re: Working with a local DNS cache

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel holtmann org>]

Hi Dan,

> > I'm one of the developers on Chromium[1] (aka Google Chrome) for
> > Linux. Chromium likes to prefetch DNS records a lot and, as such, we
> > would very much like it if Linux systems came with a local DNS cache.
> > 
> > To that end, I'm hacking up DJB's public domain DNS cache[2] to build
> > with autotools, have a DBus interface etc[3], in the hope that it can
> > turn into a painless package install and, in time, become standard
> > practice.
> 
> These days I'd rather just use a local caching nameserver by default in
> NM, and let those that don't want it turn it off or something.
> 
> The most common local caching nameserver is currently dnsmasq, and it
> also provides a D-Bus interface.  If at all possible, we should try to
> use *one* dbus interface.  Not sure if you've looked at the dnsmasq dbus
> API, but it might be worth a glance.

I did look at it. It is the worst D-Bus API I have seen in a long time
and not helpful. Someone would have to fix it first. The amount of
parameter overloading it does is just insane. Otherwise dnsmasq has a
pretty nice set of features.

Regards

Marcel