Quoting Brian Foster (blf at utvinternet.ie):
> not clear. the name of process and binary is ‘dnsserver’.
> it does not appear to be a busybox binary, but also does
> not behave like ‘dnsmasq’ does (giving it assorted arguments).
> I've no idea if it caches at all. (I note ‘dnsmasq’ has
> a very small cache, according to its documentation.)
The only mention of processes called "dnsserver" I can find mention of
is a service process spawned by the Squid cache package (to prevent
blocking on gethostbyname(3) calls).
(Well, and there's also a Java component called "DNSServer" in Apache
Java Enterprise Mail Server (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES).
And there's also the old load-balacing package in Perl called
Stanford::DNSServer based on lbnamed, but that's probably not it, either.)
So, I honestly don't know what that is, sorry.
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