[Dovecot] Proxying to a DNS Name

[Jakob Hirsch]

Timo Sirainen, 2010-01-25 20:29:

>>> b) Get some async DNS library from somewhere.
>> I have been looking for that as well recenly, and I stumbled upon the
>> unbound library, part of the unbound project.
> I know there are a few of them, but I'd prefer to use the system's own
> resolver. A few reasons that I can think of:

adns seems to be pretty mature and should be available on most systems
as a maintained package (I only checked Fedora and debian, though), so

>  - do external dns resolver libraries support /etc/hosts?

I guees not, but e.g. dnsmasq does, and one should have such a thing
running locally, I'd say.