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

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Aug 11, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> 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.
Last time I looked, its maximum poll rate was once/min -- it only  
checked the file status if more than 60 seconds had elapsed since the  
last one.

The question is whether or not there's a lighter-weight intermediate  
solution for laptops than running a full caching named.

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb