Re: Working with a local DNS cache

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 12:04 -0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> 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.

Ok, fair enough.  If that's the case, perhaps we should gently propose
fixes to Simon?  He's quite responsive.

Dan