From: joshua stein <jcs@jcs.org>
Subject: Re: unwind: enable forced resolvers
To: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:34:55 -0600

On Wed, 25 Feb 2026 at 18:25:46 +0100, Florian Obser wrote:
> I think this will work, I've just read all the relevant code. OK florian

Thanks.

> Someone else was asking me about a similar use case a few years back,
> and I didn't come up with this solution...
> 
> Btw. I think force should (additionally) accept a forwarder spec, i.e
> this should work:
> 
>     preference { autoconf }
>     force 127.0.0.1 port 5300 { local }
> 
> Not sure of the exact syntax and how to convince the parser, but you get
> the idea...

I will commit what I have and will noodle on this..

> btw2. do we need something that speaks mdns in base? 

Maybe not speak, but just listening and caching would be helpful.