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Re: Importing unbound



On 6 May 2015 at 09:26, Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost> wrote:
> On 05/05/2015 14:22, David Brownlee 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.

Looks like that has been fixed in recent dnsmasq (which is nice)

"Sending SIGHUP to the dnsmasq process will cause it to empty its cache and
then re-load <TT>/etc/hosts</TT> and <TT>/etc/resolv.conf</TT>."


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