Re: /etc/dnsrewrite usage poll

> I have never needed it, but it is easy to imagine scenarios where the

 Not to pick on you personally, but that's the very line of thought that
leads to creeping featurism and complex projects, and that I'm precisely
trying to avoid.
 I too have a very wild imagination, and I can easily figure dozens
of scenarios where /etc/dnsrewrite is not even powerful enough and we
need a Turing-complete preprocessor that would put GNU m4 to shame,
with XML configuration files (because we might need to extend the
configuration language), stored in a SQL database (because we might
want to store other things too and that's what a database is for).
With a graphical user interface (because the majority of users will
want the simplicity of the GUI). The project now uses 30 MB of RAM,
has eight heavy dependencies, is a maintenance nightmare, and it's
still just a domain name qualification mechanism.

 Slippery slope is slippery.

 I want actual, real cases of /etc/dnsrewrite use. djbdns has been out
for what, 12 years ? If people aren't using /etc/dnsrewrite today, it's
just not needed.

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 Laurent