network-manager main inclusion report

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Bastien Nocera">

> > BIND is used because it's highly and dynamically reconfigurable, so it
> > copes well with rapidly changing networks, gateways, VPNs, and so on.
> > lwresd is an option, but doesn't have all the required functionality.
> > 
> > The configuration used for BIND by NetworkManager is minimal and secure,
> > so it's not a huge deal.
> 
> bind is huge for what you want to use it for, it's yet another network
> service. Use nscd, that's what it's there for... (The only drawback is
> that if you invalidate the cache during a lookup, that lookup will fail
> but the subsequent lookup will work, bit of an edge case).

afaik (and the reason why BIND was chosen by upstream), you can't configure
nscd at run time to the same degree you can with BIND.

- Jeff

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