On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 07:12:02 -0400 Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 03:25:01AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > > > > There shouldn't IMO be broken DNS any more on modern networked *ix > > hosts. Run a local recursive resolver and list 127.0.0.1 as the > > first resolv.conf entry. It's 2016, guys. > > Why isn't a local resolver the default? Why do we rely on the ISP to > do provide one with DHCP? Because, even to this day, djbdns tricky to compile-install and calibrate, and don't EVEN get me started on what distro packages do to djbdns. I suppose someone could suggest I go to Bind, but that someone would be greatly overestimating my IQ: I'd need about 40 additional IQ points to understand how to work with Bind. But you bring up an excellent point. Life would be sweeter with an always-working, local, caching DNS. I *could* create a package made out of djb's source code (which almost certainly won't change anymore) and my shellscripts to easily lay down a djbdns, fully configured. I think there's a patch to make djbdns work with ipv6, so my version2 could do that. SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
