pdnsd

I love watching Firefox forever display "Looking up www.example.com...". I love it when it says it can't find a server, even when I can ping individual IPs just fine.

No, actually, I hate it.

Why doesn't my machine just remember which IP matches which domain name, even if the router or my ISP craps out? Well, looks like somebody else was thinking like I was, because that's exactly what pdnsd does: it looks up domain names, and remembers their matching IP addresses.

So here's how I set it up for myself.