Bug#318464: [Resolvconf-devel] Bug#318464: resolvconf: Cascaded dnscache incompatibility

[Thomas Hood]

Tobias Reckhard wrote:
> The dnscache script in the resolvconf package breaks this setup by
> overwriting the root/servers/@ file of the forward-only-dnscache with
> its own address, leading to a forwarding loop. This effectively breaks
> all DNS reolution on the system.
> 
> If resolvconf is to continue to manage the root/servers/@ file of all
> forward-only dnscache instances on a host, it would make sense to modify
> only those which do not point to the host itself, i.e. to an address
> within 127/8 or to one of the host's own IP addresses, such as 1.2.3.4
> in the example above.
> 
> Could you please consider this option?


I'll ask Daniel Kahn Gillmor to comment on this issue.  DKG is a member
of the resolvconf developer group at alioth and he is the author of
etc/resolvconf/update.d/dnscache.

-- 
Thomas