On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Gordon Messmer <yinyang@eburg.com> wrote:

On 05/17/2012 09:19 PM, JD wrote:

That's excellent info. contradicts what other people have replied.

I also meant to point out that if you select nscd rather than a local caching server, you don't need 127.0.0.1 in resolv.conf. glibc connects to nscd via a Unix socket rather than via IP. The same is true of sssd on newer releases of Fedora. (nscd is, I believe, deprecated by Fedora in favor of sssd).
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I have switched to dnsmasq and so far, it is not too bad.
Albeit, it's cache purge algorithm seems to have a very
short ttl for any translation - like about 3 to 5 minutes!!!
I looked for a configuration in dnsmasq.conf that would
force dnsmasq to keep a translation for a longer time in
it's tables. I have not found it, or I must be going blind :)