On Friday 06 June 2003 10:13 am, John Haxby wrote: > Jarod C. Wilson wrote: > > On Friday, Jun 6, John Haxby wrote: > > In the office, I have a different IP address and that's hardwired to the > > > >> same two MAC addresses. There's a slight problem in moving from home > >> to work and vice versa -- applications tend to read /etc/resolv.conf > >> when they start up and use that to decide which name server to talk > >> to. Unfortunately, the name server at home isn't reachable from work > >> and the name server at work doesn't do recursive queries from outside > >> (and doesn't know about the private network at home). The upshot of > >> that is that I have to restart some applications (e.g. mozilla, > >> rhn-applet-gui, nfs server) when I go from work to home or back again, > >> and sometimes there's enough confusion that it's easier to reboot. > > > > This is one of the primary things that makes me think I want to stay > > with my Mac OS X laptop for at least a while longer. If you have to > > roam between several different networks, many of which are static > > only, no DHCP, Linux (and Windows, for that matter) can be a real > > PITA. Mac OS X still has the best damned setup for a laptop in these > > kinds of situations. You set up a location profile, which contains > > what interface to use, what gateway to use, what DNS servers to use, > > DHCP or static, etc., and it is all shift on the fly from either the > > control panel or the Location sub-menu of the Apple menu. Apple's the > > only one that's got it right, so far. I sure would like to see such a > > thing under Linux... > > It's slightly tricky. > > The first part is easy though -- neat allows you to have multiple > profiles although I've not felt the near to try it just yet. > > The second part is slightly harder -- the resolver library needs to > check to see if /etc/resolv.conf has changed and if it has, it needs to > re-load it. > Not sure what you mean here. If you change /etc/resolv.conf the result is immediately seen when a new program is run. Do you mean that you also want an already running program to see the change? (I'm not sure what the current behaviour is in this case).
