Re: Importing unbound

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 06/05/2015 10:04, David Brownlee wrote:
> On 6 May 2015 at 09:26, Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost> wrote:
>> On 05/05/2015 14:22, David Brownlee wrote:
>>
>> dnsmasq is a lot more light weight than unbound for sure, however using
>> dnsmasq as a cache can be problematic as it strips stuff it doesn't
>> understand (or want) from the upstream replies which you may need when
>> debugging.
>>
>> Also, unless you have dbus installed (and dnsmasq built for it), there
>> is a minor race window where you could be re-starting dnsmasq to pickup
>> a new confile set by resolvconf(8). named also has this flaw, unbound
>> does not as it re-reads everything on SIGHUP.
> 
> Looks like that has been fixed in recent dnsmasq (which is nice)
> 
> "Sending SIGHUP to the dnsmasq process will cause it to empty its cache and
> then re-load <TT>/etc/hosts</TT> and <TT>/etc/resolv.conf</TT>."

SIGHUP will not trigger dnsmasq to re-read it's configuration file
(/usr/pkg/etc/dnsmasq.conf) though, which is what I need it to do.
Upstream were not too eager about fixing that when I brought it up a
long time ago.

Roy