Re: Working with a local DNS cache
- From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel holtmann org>
- To: Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>
- Cc: Adam Langley <agl imperialviolet org>, networkmanager-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Working with a local DNS cache
- Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:04:29 -0700
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
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