On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:00:27AM +0100, Adam Tkac wrote:
For clarify what exactly discussed feature did (nothing more). When you get
nameservers from DHCP dhcdbd tells to named through DBUS that named
should use them as forwarders and NetworkManager sets 127.0.0.1 as
default nameserver in resolv.conf. So you could use named as
caching-nameserver on laptops and you don't have to edit named.conf
always when you move to different network. I think it makes sence add
this feature to some light DNS server but not into named. It's simply
too heavy-weight solution. Also upstream will never accept such feature
because this is not primary BIND mission. Domain name modification
should be done with nsupdate utility through DDNS update message which
is part of DNS protocol.
If there is a design flaw, as you seem to be implying, dropping it as
soon as possible is, in my opinion, the best thing to do (at least in
fedora ;-), to ease as much as possible the transition path.
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Pat