BIND will completely drop D-BUS dynamic forwarders table support
Neal Becker
ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 11:41:38 UTC 2007
Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 00:07 +0100, Tomas Janousek wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:12:28AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
>> > 2) Know that you have to call res_init() in response to that signal
>> >
>> > Ideally we wouldn't have 2), but that's the state of things now.
>>
>> I do in no way want to start any distro flame or something, but just in
>> case any of you didn't notice, I'd like to add that Debian has been in
>> this "ideally" state for some time.
>>
>> They have a glibc patch that stats resolv.conf every time a resolving
>> function is called. The resolv.conf file is managed by the resolvconf
>> program and it's kept somewhere in /dev/shm. And, well, it simply works,
>> all the time.
>
> I tried to suggest that a few years ago but upstream glibc didn't want
> to do that, which I guess is fine. Maybe Fedora could just pick up that
> patch, or start using nscd again by default.
>
I played with nscd but found it unsatisfactory. Problem was it happily kept
stale cache results for machines on dhcp. I don't know if this is
controllable, but if not, it seems pretty useless.
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