On 08/14/2012 08:21 AM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Still too much blood in my caffeine stream.... IIRC, someone was asking > about a problem with DNS queries and IPv6 yesterday. I just got a > notification from RH this morning, about a glibc bugfix update, and > wondered if this might impact that problem.... > > Excerpt: > This update fixes the following bug: > > * Prior to this update, glibc incorrectly handled the "options rotate" > option in > the /etc/resolv.conf file when this file also contained one or more IPv6 name > servers. Consequently, DNS queries could unexpectedly fail, particularly when > multiple queries were issued by a single process. This update fixes > internalization of the listed servers from /etc/resolv.conf into glibc's > internal structures, as well as the sorting and rotation of those > structures to > implement the "options rotate" capability. Now, DNS names are resolved > correctly > in glibc in the described scenario. (BZ#843571) > --- end excerpt --- > > mark This update was pushed by CentOS as well: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2012-August/018799.html
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