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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-dns/pdnsd
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 10:35:44
Message-Id: 20211212133520.e121ea6a2c3bfb3f9805bfe2@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-dns/pdnsd by Lars Wendler
1 On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 15:33:34 +0100 Lars Wendler wrote:
2 > Fails to build with recent kernel headers (bug #801688).
3 > Upstream is gone for a long time. Masked for removal in 30 days.
4 > Users should switch over to net-dns/dnsmasq which provides similar
5 > features.
6
7 Depending on usage profile net-dns/unbound may be a better
8 replacement. For me a killer feature of pdnsd was the persistent
9 dns cache, which is very useful on mobile devices. Dnsmasq doesn't
10 have one, but unbound now has.
11
12 Best regards,
13 Andrew Savchenko

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-dns/pdnsd Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@g.o>