End of caching-nameserver package

Adam Tkac atkac at redhat.com
Fri Jun 15 09:33:57 UTC 2007


Gianluca Sforna napsal(a):
> On 6/14/07, Bernardo Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>> Adam Tkac wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > caching-nameserver package will be removed and configfiles will be 
>> moved
>> > into main bind package. I did this decision because people often 
>> tell me
>> > something like "Where is default /etc/named.conf?" and I tell them
>> > "Please install caching-nameserver". So if you install bind package 
>> you
>> > have also default configuration which is usable for 
>> caching-nameserver.
>>
>> By the way, I always wanted to ask... we use caching-nameserver
>> because the libc resolver can only do per-process caching versus
>> system-wide caching, right?
>>
>> If so, wouldn't nscd be a lighter weight daemon for this purpose?
>
> +1
>
> /me just loves dnsmasq....
>
<start flame>
BIND is better :)
<end flame>

-A-




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