[Dnsmasq-discuss] Any plans on adding ability to store cachetodisk?

Timothy Madden terminatorul at gmail.com
Mon May 14 16:29:34 BST 2012


On 12/03/2006 12:40 PM, Simon Kelley wrote:
> gypsy wrote:
>
>> If Simon is offended, then so be it, but I mean no offense. I just fail
>> to see how a save to/restore from disk could bloat the code;
>> save/restore IS a basic feature. TTL will expire out any crap
>> naturally.
>> --
>> gypsy
>
> I'm not at all offended. In my role as dnsmasq-benevolent-dictator I get
> to have opinions about what's good to do in dnsmasq and what's not. I
> also get to hear arguments about what's good to do in dnsmasq and what's
> not, and sometimes I even change my mind (I did about the DHCP
> lease-change script, for instance, and forcing an address change when an
> already-configured host gets a static DHCP address).
>
> I guess if a I make too many bad calls, there's nothing to stop a fork:
> that's the Free Software way.
>
> I just happen not to have changed my mind about this. I'm still happy to
> hear arguments about it.

I also find this a basic feature that should not be missing from 
dnsmasq. Is there still no way to do this ?

Thank you,
Timothy Madden




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