Improved DNS resolving for laptops?

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Saturday 24 July 2004 16:54, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Denis Vlasenko]
>
> > Run dnscache on your box. Restart it every time your DNS servers
> > change. Or run it in 'go to root servers' mode, in that mode it need
> > not be restarted at all.
>
> I am aware of the option of running a local DNS server, but should it
> really be required to run a daemon to get long-lived programs to
> handle changes to the DNS configuration?

It's indeed silly if you will try to run bind. :)
OTOH, dnscache is small.

> I believe it would be more sensible to make all programs update their
> resolver configuration when it changes.

You are right
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