On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 21:31 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 01.06.2015 um 20:30 schrieb Andrew Lutomirski: > > I would think that avoiding a single point of failure (your LAN > > nameserver) would be a *good* thing > > and your holy one and only resolver on localhost is not a single point > of failure? No more than glibc, or any other component you have. > in fact it would take much longer to recognize a failing and > exclusive local resolver on 2 out of 1000 servers why it gets visible > from the first second if your central nameservers have problems This is orthogonal to the problem being solved. > and BTW glibc has no problem with the first nameserver in > /etc/resolv.conf failing as long as the slave responds, it may take a > little time but that don't matter as long as we are not talking about a > incoming mail exchanger Yes there are situation where it doesn't matter ... and there are situation where it does. A local resolver has many advantages and very few disadvantages for the *general* case. Take it easy, it is not the end of the world. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
