Re: Importing unbound

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

On Wednesday 06 May 2015 11:28:49 John Nemeth wrote:
> On May 6,  9:26am, Roy Marples 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.
> 
>      Why would a DNS server be reading /etc/resolv.conf at all?
> That file is for use by the resolver library and has nothing to do
> with the server.  I'm pretty sure named won't be reading it.
> 
> }-- End of excerpt from Roy Marples

dnsmasq will read /etc/resolv.conf for upstream name servers to forward 
requests to. It assumes that /etc/resolv.conf would be set appropriately by 
say a PPP or DHCP client.

Roy