Testers wanted: reentrant resolver

Matthew N. Dodd winter at jurai.net
Sun Feb 22 16:55:46 PST 2004


On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Randy Bush wrote:
> what i don't understand is why gal/moz has its own resolver.
> for those of us who roam, it seems to mean having to restart
> the browser and lose all our windows/tabs, a major pita.
>
> [ and due to sick natted sites which block 53, one can not
>   just have one's laptop's resolv.conf have 127.0.0.1 up
>   front and run named ]

Set your local nameserver to forward only, and make dhclient generate a
file with a forwarders entry that you can pre-process into a named.conf.

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