Hello, pdnsd works fine even with no network at all: it has off-line restart persistent cache and allows dynamical addition of any new service providers. Thus net is not needed, but should be used if user wants this.
Created attachment 358512 [details, diff] pdnsd.rc7.patch
+ 08 Oct 2013; Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> pdnsd-1.2.9a.ebuild, + files/pdnsd.rc7, metadata.xml: + Change "need net" to "use net" in init script (bug #484658). Converted ebuild + to EAPI-5. Took over maintenance. +