dproxy is a small caching name server (DNS) for use between Local Area Networks and the internet.
It features:
dproxy was initially written when Netscape Navigator 4 was the only browser availble for Linux, and BIND was a bloated beast with many security issues (is it still?).
Unfortunately Netscape 4 had an annoying bug where it would lockup and eat all your CPU while it was attempting to resolve a name. This would happen whenever your PPP dialup connection would drop.
Without the source code to Navigator, all I could do was write some software that always replied promptly to Netscape. dproxy was written to run on dial-up gateway machines and behave nicely when the gateway was not connected.
So it turns out that a few years later ADSL and WIFI are all the rage and many embedded routers run Linux. Most need some basic DNS support that doesn't consume much flash space. dproxy becomes useful once more.
Known products that use dproxy:
dproxy-nexgen
dproxy-nexgen is a rewrite of the core of dproxy. dproxy no longer uses
gethostbyname() and so has no need to fork to handle new requests.
This means dproxy is much faster and lighter resources.
dproxy-0.5
Thanks to soureforge.net dproxy can be accessed by a number of means:
NEW! dproxy-nexgen.tar.gz
Give it a try and let me know how it works. It seems to work much better than dproxy-0.5 for most people.