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 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
