New Port: net/pdns

pdnsd is a proxy dns server with permanent caching

PR:		22963
Submitted by:	Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com>

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+pdnsd is a proxy dns server with permanent caching (the cache contents are
+written to hard disk on exit) that is designed to cope with unreacheable or
+down dns servers (for example in dial-in networking).
+pdnsd can be used with applications that do dns lookups, eg on startup, and
+can't be configured to change that behaviour, to prevent the often minute-long
+hangs (or even crashes) that result from stalled dns queries. Some Netscape
+Navigator versions for Unix, for example, expose this behaviour.
+pdnsd is configurable via a file and supports run-time configuration using the
+program pdnsd-ctl that comes with pdnsd. This allows you to set the status
+flags of servers that pdnsd knows (to influence which servers pdnsd will
+query), and the addition, deletion and invalidation of DNS records in pdnsd's
+cache.
+Parallel name server queries are supported. This is a technique that allows
+querying several servers at the same time so that very slow or unavailable
+servers will not block the answer for one timeout interval.
+Since version 1.0.0, pdnsd has full IPv6 support.
+
+WWW: http://home.t-online.de/home/Moestl/
+
+Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com>