On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 12:04 -0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Dan, > > > > I'm one of the developers on Chromium[1] (aka Google Chrome) for > > > Linux. Chromium likes to prefetch DNS records a lot and, as such, we > > > would very much like it if Linux systems came with a local DNS cache. > > > > > > To that end, I'm hacking up DJB's public domain DNS cache[2] to build > > > with autotools, have a DBus interface etc[3], in the hope that it can > > > turn into a painless package install and, in time, become standard > > > practice. > > > > These days I'd rather just use a local caching nameserver by default in > > NM, and let those that don't want it turn it off or something. > > > > The most common local caching nameserver is currently dnsmasq, and it > > also provides a D-Bus interface. If at all possible, we should try to > > use *one* dbus interface. Not sure if you've looked at the dnsmasq dbus > > API, but it might be worth a glance. > > I did look at it. It is the worst D-Bus API I have seen in a long time > and not helpful. Someone would have to fix it first. The amount of > parameter overloading it does is just insane. Otherwise dnsmasq has a > pretty nice set of features.
Ok, fair enough. If that's the case, perhaps we should gently propose fixes to Simon? He's quite responsive. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
