25 Apr
2014
25 Apr
'14
10:56 a.m.
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 10:41:54 -0400 Chuck Anderson cra@WPI.EDU wrote:
[...] We need an independent, system-wide DNS cache, and always point resolv.conf to 127.0.0.1 to solve this fundamental design problem with how name resolution works on a Linux system. Windows has had a default system-wide DNS cache for over a decade. It is about time that Linux catches up.
I observe you pointedly ignore the existence of nscd (which does not require any changes to resolv.conf). Why is that?
-- Pete