On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:41:27 -0400 Bernie Innocenti wrote:
xchat in Fedora needs to be restarted after switching to a different
nameserver or it fails to resolve.
The xchat developers say that all xchat does is call gethostbyname().
A Debian user told me that Debian carries a glibc patch to make
processes notice resolv.conf updates and reload it.
Is there any chance we could apply the same patch in Fedora too? I
don't know all the details, but I guess there might be a good reason
why this patch wasn't upstreamed yet.
Ulrich Drepper always said resolv.conf updates are detected fine when
nscd is running, and that everyone should use it. There's a bug
requesting nscd to be mandatory:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565880
Michal