It is now possible to write the contents of Deadwood-3's cache to a file, and to read the contents of said file to update the cache. This is useful for people with intermittent online connections, who may wish to connect to sites even if their upstream DNS server is dodgy. To enable this feature, add a line such as the following to your dwood2rc file: cache_file = "cache/dwood_cache" The '/' is used to place the cache in a separate directory; the location of the filename is relative to the chroot_dir parameter; for example, if ones dwood2rc file has the two following lines: chroot_dir = "/etc/deadwood" cache_file = "cache/dwood_cache" Then the cache file would be stored in the file "/etc/deadwood/cache/dwood_cache". Note that, for security reasons, the cache_file can not have any characters besides lowercase letters, the '-' symbol, the '_' symbol, and the '/' symbol. Any other symbols in the filename are converted to '_'; in particular, the '.' symbol is not allowed. The user-id and group-id that the file is read as and written as are determined by the maradns_uid and maradns_gid parameters (the reason for these names is for maximum MaraDNS mararc compatibility). For example, in some systems, the user-id and group-id '99' indicate the "nobody" user; this would be set up as follows in the dwood3rc file: maradns_uid = 99 maradns_gid = 99 Note that you need to use the numeric user and group id values; like MaraDNS, Deadwood-2 doesn't look up usernames in /etc/passwd. Optimally, one would create a "deadwood" user and group, which no other application shares, and have Deadwood's user and group ID be the user and group ID of the deadwood user. Once this is done, one should ideally have Deadwood's chroot directory be a directory the deadwood user can *not* write in, and a subdirectory that the deadwood user can write in (ideally owned by Deadwood with 700 permissions; the cache does list what web sites users go to, which has privacy implications). Please delete the cache file if making changes to the dwood3rc file; otherwise changes in this file may not "stick".