On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:47, "Donovan Baarda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seriously, does nscd really not correctly handle dns caching/expiry > properly? I thought the dns caching stuff was well thought out and > defined... not implementing it properly would be dumb.
It's what I've been told. I haven't tested it myself. > I don't think that it's that simple... I seem to be getting lookups for > both of those. Are you sure you didn't just have smtp.sws.net.au in your > hosts file? You are correct, I stuffed up that test. > > I think that ping is buggy in this regard. I think that it should just > > keep using the first DNS result that it gets, if the user wants ping to > > re-do the DNS lookups then they will press ^C and re-start it! Would you > > like to file the bug report or shall I? > > There may be reasons that it doesn't.... round robin DNS? Dynamic DNS > "flapping"? dunno. I disagree, and I am not the only one, see the following URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=109709 -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
