SOLVED: [ILUG] lightweight dns "server" for leaf node?

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:23:25 +0100
  | From: Brian Foster <blf at utvinternet.ie>
  | 
  |   | Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:19:20 +0000
  |   | From: Keith Gaughan <k at stereochro.me>
  |   | 
  |   | On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 11:37:31PM +0100, Brian Foster wrote:
  |   | >  for some reason, my internet provider's dns service has
  |   | >  turned extremely flaky.  [...]
  |   | 
  |   | $ sudo apt-get install unbound
  |   | 
  |   |[...]  Installing unbound solved everything instantly.
  | 
  |  I've decided to give unbound(8) a try — now to see if it helps....

 having been running it for about a week now,
 it does seem to have solved the issue.
 as Keith says, installation was trivial,
 the only issue I had was I had to edit
 /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/head
 to use localhost (127.0.0.1) as the 1st choice
 nameserver, with Generalissimo Google™'s new
 service (8.8.8.8) as the 2nd choice, and then
 run ‘resolvconf -u’ (it's not clear if there
 ever was — or now is — any point to running
 resolvconf(8), but that's a different(?) issue).

thanks & cheers!
	-blf-

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