Re: Add a minimal instance of named early in the boot

[Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Roy Marples<roy%marples.name@localhost> wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 August 2009 04:22:24 Steven Bellovin wrote:
>> The question is whether or not there's a lighter-weight intermediate
>> solution for laptops than running a full caching named.
>
> dnsmasq is much lighter than named in all respects and is as such ideal for
> the laptop where I use it always.
>
Latest version of dnsmasq are GPLv3 which is likely to cause
redistribution issues in the embedded world. Another solution is
djbdns, which has a resolver/cache splitted from the server.

 - Arnaud