network-manager main inclusion report

[Bastien Nocera]

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 18:15 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Bastien Nocera">
> 
> > > BIND is used because it's highly and dynamically reconfigurable, so it
> > > copes well with rapidly changing networks, gateways, VPNs, and so on.
> > > lwresd is an option, but doesn't have all the required functionality.
> > > 
> > > The configuration used for BIND by NetworkManager is minimal and secure,
> > > so it's not a huge deal.
> > 
> > bind is huge for what you want to use it for, it's yet another network
> > service. Use nscd, that's what it's there for... (The only drawback is
> > that if you invalidate the cache during a lookup, that lookup will fail
> > but the subsequent lookup will work, bit of an edge case).
> 
> afaik (and the reason why BIND was chosen by upstream), you can't configure
> nscd at run time to the same degree you can with BIND.

Apart from a decent default config file, what is it you need exactly?
It would certainly be nice to be able to switch host caching on easily
without poking at the config file, but I don't see that as a real
problem.

Dan Williams chose BIND, but it was nscd that was used in the end (after
people kicked him for having a requires on bind).

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Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> 
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