[Dnsmasq-discuss] don't empty cache

[Olaf Westrik]

Markus Bergholz wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:10 PM, richardvoigt at gmail.com <
> richardvoigt at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Markus Bergholz <markuman at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:47 PM, richardvoigt at gmail.com <
>>> richardvoigt at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Markus Bergholz <markuman at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>>>> dnsmasq emty his cache after restart, how to prevent it?
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>>>> Don't restart?  Or is there a reason you are restarting?  Maybe there's
>>>> another way to do what you need...
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>>> ehm yeah, it is my desktop pc ;) and i don't want to setup the big bind
>>> dns server....
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>> So you are restarting dnsmasq only when restarting the entire OS, and it's
>> running Linux?  WIth software suspend, true restarts usually happen
>> infrequently enough to not be a problem (e.g. only for kernel update).
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> yeah its running linux (arch linux)....yeah, but if i have to reboot while
> kernel update, it sucks :D
> and atm i have a driver bug and have to plug out and in the mouse for move
> them after sleeping...
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So why run domething like dnsmasq on a box that needs a restart every hour?

I really fail to see the need to store cache state.


Olaf

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