Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Any GNU/Linux Gurus. Need Help Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:55:56 +0200 Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <18c2a3474c183555$54827$300760$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <87mrvrhvfd.fsf@atr2.ath.cx> <18c2cd68b8eac2eb$41590$199644$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <87fr1islxe.fsf@eder.anydns.info> <18c2e3bd758091e7$87485$300493$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <18c37c6de6d651fd$843$754419$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <18c38f72e97dd8af$856$754419$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net aTSmrOPZrgcgBIiRykzCIQYbFd/FdK5VokPtUzxG8YTc9UQJ1B Cancel-Lock: sha1:8uqoi/hAVPqhjIGsOh4GzbYGhIs= sha256:XB90sc04tXZ0Do/jR6sbuvKXZEO/vWwaU1KCtWAizdw= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <18c38f72e97dd8af$856$754419$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:88908 On 2026-07-19 04:20, Leroy H wrote: > On 19 Jul 2026 01:31:39 GMT, rbowman wrote: > >> >> Perhaps you shouldn't have tried to set up DNS caching. >> > > I have been using pdnsd for a L-O-N-G time and there has never > been a problem until recently and then only with security > on commercial payment sites. > > Pdnsd allows me avoid the web tracking of ISP nameservers > by directly querying the top-level root nameservers. > > The web site for pdnsd seems down but there is very recent > information on ArchLinux: > > > Says last stable version was 14 years ago. You could be using a current thing like dnsmasq. Even bind. > > I will get this debugged. Right now it is not urgent but > I will dig into it. IP has not changed and will not change. > Therefore the pdnsd code will remain viable even without > an active maintainer. > > If not, I can always temporarily, as needed, resort to dhcpcd > with OpenDNS. > -- Cheers, Carlos E.R. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;