[Dnsmasq-discuss] don't empty cache

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He was talking to Brad Morgan, who by his own admission does not install
kernel updates on his firewall running RH9.

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Markus Bergholz <markuman at gmail.com> wrote:

> wtf?
> of course i do kernel updates on my desktop machine (for new driver
> support, new features, better performance and security issues!). if you're
> not, take back your windows machines :-P :)
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de>wrote:
>
>> Am 23.06.2009, 01:17 Uhr, schrieb Brad Morgan <b-morgan at concentric.net>:
>>
>> >> dnsmasq emty his cache after restart, how to prevent it?
>> >
>> > Isn't the right answer to get dnsmasq off of a machine that isn't
>> > stable?  I have dnsmasq running on a Redhat 9 Linux machine that also
>> > serves as my
>> > firewall. There are no kernel updates to worry about and the system just
>> > runs and runs and runs with uptimes measured in multiple months.
>>
>> That's something to _STRONGLY_ discourage. Kernel updates aren't required
>> that often (if you feel they are, run one of the BSDs), and they aren't
>> the cause for the original posting/pain anyways.
>>
>> Running firewalls on outdated kernels is as dangerous as it can get - some
>> code injection might disable your firewall and then expose your whole LAN.
>>
>> --
>> Matthias Andree
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