Re: Working with a local DNS cache

[Howard Chu <hyc symas com>]

> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:53:10 -0700
> From: Adam Langley<agl imperialviolet org>

Just for reference, I've been running with my patch

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551747

for the past several months. It should be pretty trivial to merge/paste it 
into what you're doing. Would be nice to be able to stop having to build this 
custom for all of my machines.

> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Dan Williams<dcbw redhat com>  wrote:
> > Well, Marcel had some valid issues with dnsmasq, and others may want to
> > use bind, so in the end we probably want a GInterface for this and then
> > have classes that implement the GInterface for each of the specific
> > caching name daemons. ?I don't really have a problem with that; we'll
> > probably have to add arguments and a config file option for which one
> > you want to use, because people may want to use dnsmasq underneath
> > chromium too and have chromium still use 127.0.0.1.
>
> I only wrote the code using org.chromium.LocalDNSCache because that's
> what I have running here. For the final version, I think it should use
> the dnsmasq interface[1]. I've no desire to fork interfaces with out a
> good reason. (The dnsmasq interface isn't very pretty, but I don't
> know if that's a good enough reason.)
>
> I'd be happy to write a GInterface to abstract the configuration if
> that's what's needed. But shouldn't DBus *be* that interface? I
> suppose if BIND isn't going to implement a DBus interface then we have
> little choice, but rewriting BIND configs is a rather scary
> proposition. Would people want a templating system in order to have
> NetworkManager write a config which preserved their BIND preferences?
>
> [1] http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/DBus-interface
>
> > No problem; everyone has their own. ?A few of the guidelines are
> > documented in the CONTRIBUTING but I see now that I should extend that
> > significantly.
> >
> > A few style comments...
>
> Thanks! Hopefully I've fixed up those style issues. (Note: rebased on
> top of up-to-date tree). Also updated the CONTRIBUTING file with some
> of your style points:
>
> http://github.com/agl/NetworkManager/commits/agl


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