Proposed patch for DNS and name resolution related problems inappliance branch

Toomas Soome Toomas.Soome at microlink.ee
Mon Jul 1 01:38:19 GMT 2002


Please keep in mind that there is ns cache on some platforms already
(solaris nscd etc), so this feature should be possible to be switched
off.

toomas 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-technical-admin at lists.samba.org 
> [mailto:samba-technical-admin at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Simo Sorce
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 11:03 AM
> To: Tim Potter
> Cc: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: Proposed patch for DNS and name resolution 
> related problems inappliance branch
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 03:55, Tim Potter wrote:
> 
> > I know Jeremy initially wasn't keen on the resolve/retry 
> stuff going 
> > in to HEAD but maybe in the context of optimising name 
> resolution he 
> > will change his mind.  (-:
> > 
> 
> I heartedly agree.
> We need some kind of DNS caching both of positive and 
> negative results. Samba is yet overcomplicated sometimes due 
> to stupid NetBIOS habbits, and adding mis-configured DNS 
> headaches to administrator is just foul.
> 
> It would perhaps be very interesting tough to make an 
> independent module that can be reused by other apps too, 
> something like an advanced resolver. Only one thing, be sure 
> not to cache which are DNS servers. I hate very much 
> applications (like galeon or mozilla) that do not mind 
> checcking if resolv.conf has changed, and stop working when I 
> move my notebook from a network to another one, or when I 
> connect to a different provider.
> 
> Simo.
> 
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