[dns-operations] security-aware stub resolver

[Tony Finch]

On Thu, 22 May 2008, David Conrad wrote:
>
> I personally believe the correct answer here is that stub resolvers go
> away, being replaced with validating caching resolvers.  Most of the
> historical rationale that drove stub resolvers, namely client-side CPU
> and memory limitations have long since been resolved (pun intended).

Even if everything is running on a single host you need a protocol between
client applications and the host's DNS cache. It might as well continue to
be the stub resolver protocol.

Tony.
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