Subject: Re: have there been any "recent" resolver fixes?
To: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: current-users
Date: 06/02/2000 14:01:10
woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods) writes:

> Would it not still make sense to have lwresd running locally on hosts
> that do a lot of DNS (eg. a squid server) but which don't need the full
> heavy-weight named?

On systems where the resolver uses the lightweight daemon, it will be
required to run on the local box.

The thing is, lwresd and named both do a lot of the same thing -- give
answers to questions about host names and the like.  A lot of code
can/should be shared.

--Michael