Why is named started, but not being used?

[Neal Becker]

Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:55:08 -0500
> Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> This looks like a train wreck in progress to me.
> 
> Like the Linux networking system isn't?  Seriously.  Apps assume that
> what info they get at start is set in stone.  Works real great across
> going from coffee shop to friend's house to home.  Without something
> taking care of stuff, apps would fail to work.  Progress.
> 
> To be fair, if you don't have named installed, NM won't try to use it,
> and will just munge resolve.conf and hope for the best.  A local
> caching nameserver with changing forwarders is about the best I think
> we can do right now to keep braindead apps continuing to work across
> address/resolver changes.
> 

I _like_ a local caching nameserver.  Too bad NM's implementation is broken.