Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 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
I figured that fix was in - I did an update or two yesterday, and saw
glibc among them.
mark
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