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Florian Obser on unwind(8)

by ProfDreamer on 1/28/19, 1:17 PM with 6 comments

  • by altmind on 1/29/19, 9:18 AM

    hmm, what a name for a dns server. in the beginning i thought the article is about libunwind that resolves stack addresses to function names/symbols.
  • by 3xblah on 1/29/19, 6:58 AM

    "Proponents of the UNIX arts-and-crafts movement just run unbound(8) on localhost. Which works reasonably well until you are behind a captive portal and you have to use the dhcp-provided nameservers until you accept the terms and conditions. So you bring out your editor again..."

    you decipher the domain(s) and IP address(es) the portal uses for sign-in, then you put this info into your unbound.conf as "local-data:" or something similar.

    And you are free again to ignore the DHCP provided nameservers, keeping your localhost DNS server address in resolv.conf.

    "I think we can do better."

    You can and I am sure you will.

    What I would like to see is a localhost DNS server that runs on a mobile OS.

    Perhaps you run your own wireless router between your wireless-enabled computers and the third party access point. You can send 127.x as a nameserver in DHCP but this only works if your computers can run localhost DNS, e.g., tinydns/dnscache/dqcache, nsd/unbound, etc.

  • by teddyh on 1/29/19, 12:29 PM

    Sounds similar to systemd-resolved on Linux:

    https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/resolved/

  • by RemarkableMan on 1/29/19, 6:39 AM

    When a problem is finally solved well on OpenBSD it’s usually the best solution going. Some might not agree but I think OpenBSD has the best wireless configuration system going, and the most Unixy one as well.