Re: ifupdown writes to /etc... a bug?
Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:
> I think that for DHCP users, we should have a lightweight caching-only
> DNS server running on the local machine. /etc/resolv.conf should point
> to this resolver, and the various DHCP clients should notify the
> caching-only DNS server of changes.
That's what nscd is. It's been the recommended thing for laptop
users for at least a couple years. Restart nscd whenever the DNS
server changes, and you have no problems.
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