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| name: Caching DNS name resolver |
| maintainer: Dave Barach <dave@barachs.net> |
| features: |
| - Cache A and AAAA records from an upstream ipv4 DNS server |
| - Respond to ipv4 and ipv6 name resolution requests |
| - Supports cache sizes up to 64K concurrent entries |
| - Supports CNAME indirection |
| - Static cache entry creation, suitable for redirecting specific names |
| - Round robin upstream name lookups |
| - Binary API name lookup support |
| - Missing ipv6 upstream server support |
| - Perf/scale suitable for SOHO devices or other light-duty apps |
| description: "A caching DNS name resolver suitable for optimizing |
| name resolution performance, and for overriding |
| gethostbyname() in an LD_PRELOAD library." |
| state: development |
| properties: [API, CLI, MULTITHREAD] |