On 06/18/2010 09:59 AM, Colin Walters wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Stephen Gallagher<sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Sorry, my reply was more directed against the assertion that NSCD should >> be mandatory to solve this without changes to glibc. I agree that it >> would be ideal for gethostbyname() to internally perform a res_init() >> when appropriate. > > Ok, then we agree. I don't personally care whether it's NSCD or a > magical oracle as long as our operating system's gethostbyname() > function actually functions on mobile devices. (Caching DNS would be > a huge bonus, as other operating systems do this and us not doing so > makes the internet "feel" significantly, visibly slower compared to > them, but that's a separate bug) Well, I definitely care that it's not NSCD, as NSCD is such a broken caching mechanism that basically everyone turns it off in any environment where reliable caching is needed (and is also a large part of the reason SSSD was developed - to produce a stable cache). If we start asserting that everyone has to use NSCD in order to get stable gethostbyname(), then clearly someone is missing the point. -- Stephen Gallagher RHCE 804006346421761 Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
