On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 09:59 -0400, 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) I'm just gonna make NM use a local caching nameserver (which means dnsmasq) by default at some point soon. People that don't want it can turn it off. Dan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
