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>> 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.

and stand on your left foot while holding your nose.

why is there a need to replicate dns caching, especially if
it casuses folk to think of kinky cruft such as you suggest?
where is the win?

randy