Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Nobody is rolling their own code; they all use gethostbyname. The > problem is that glibc's resolver is too simplistic. I asked the glibc > guys about this about 3 years ago and they said they wanted to keep > glibc's resolver simple and that this should be handled either by lwresd > or a caching nameserver. The core issue was that doing something like > polling /etc/resolv.conf for updates would be unecessary on many > platforms. Hm, these are the same people who insist on driving date/time performance into the ground by stat'ing /etc/localtime on every call to any function that has any interest in timezone-dependent info. And surely that file is *less* likely to change than /etc/resolv.conf; not to mention that the ensuing work is orders of magnitude cheaper than sending an inquiry to your friendly local DNS server. Something does not compute here. regards, tom lane -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
