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



On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 07:14:30PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
> after the full named is started.  (Or maybe we should import OpenBSD's
> resolver library.)

I think that's a very bad idea.  We deliberately did _not_ pick up the
change in question because it causes filesystem access on every name
lookup.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon                                        
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