On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 08:23:28AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > Indeed. So maybe mdns is to blame here for part of the trouble? Can you > verify that really the last mdns4 entry makes up for the difference?
mdns has always been a problem in my expierence. I thought there was a bug open about that against libnss-mdns but I can't find it. > > In any case, because of all these differences and changes we > > won't have a good, stable getaddrinfo() interface to program > > against until Jessie. In the meantime a program that needs to > > distinguish between different causes for a name resolution > > failure will have to do more than just check the status and > > errno from getaddinfo(). > > In particular one of the more recent bugs set out to return EAI_NONAME > when the network is unavailable. This may be a condition where a lookup > needs to be retried though. I think it needs to return EAI_AGAIN in that case. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
