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Date:      Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:55:41 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Testers wanted: reentrant resolver
Message-ID:  <20040222195058.K6123@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040222231007.BFEEB43D1F@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10402201927260.12256-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> <20040221021045.GB8042@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20040222231007.BFEEB43D1F@mx1.FreeBSD.org>

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On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Randy Bush wrote:
> what i don't understand is why gal/moz has its own resolver.
> for those of us who roam, it seems to mean having to restart
> the browser and lose all our windows/tabs, a major pita.
>
> [ and due to sick natted sites which block 53, one can not
>   just have one's laptop's resolv.conf have 127.0.0.1 up
>   front and run named ]

Set your local nameserver to forward only, and make dhclient generate a
file with a forwarders entry that you can pre-process into a named.conf.

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