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

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 07:44:22PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 01:02:59PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> > Latest version of dnsmasq are GPLv3 which is likely to cause
> > redistribution issues in the embedded world. Another solution is
> > djbdns, which has a resolver/cache splitted from the server.
> 
> djbdns doesn't support dnssec. A valid alternative would be unbound, but
> I am not sure if it is actually smaller than named due to the library
> chain of both.

I really think lwres/lwresd are the way to go -- but someone's going to
have to step up and write an nsswitch module for them.  It's not going to
be me, not this week at least.

Thor