Hi all, Emacs is taunting me, so I figured I'd context switch for a bit before going back to it. Seeing Axel's dns related commits yesterday made me think about how painful the dns experience is across the various oses that I've used and seen. Invariably they're either limited or inconsistent, or sometimes both, and usually require you just run your own nameserver to do anything actually advanced or interesting. OS X for example provides the very cool /etc/resolver which lets you provide a different resolv.conf for a particular hostname match. OS X combines this with its lovely ability to have multiple DNS resolution infrastructures going on that make it so some tools behave correctly while others don't. So I'm proposing, and if there isn't massive objection, intending to implement a _very_ basic forwarding dns server that will be used libbind for all DNS requests. This server will accept messages for introspecting and setting DNS settings, so that the network preflet can just send a message to update DNS settings instead of writing resolv.conf. Advanced features that I currently use dnsmasq to do would be forthcoming: 1) ability to mark a domain as bogus (so if your ISP resolves all IPs to some dumb error page, you can override that) 2) ability to setup a wildcard DNS pointing at some IP (i use this for work *.acre.z points at my laptop) 3) ability to have certain domain pathes be resolved by a different DNS server then the default one (I use this for VPN, so that only my work DNS requests go to the work DNS server) I'm sure there are other desireable features, these are the basics for me, and I think it would give Haiku a much more consistent DNS experience for users and power users alike. There is also the ability to put some DNS caching in the dns_server if desired, which will be used by all apps (this is a fun one on OS X, some apps don't use the cache). Alex