Once upon a time, Paul Wouters <pwout...@redhat.com> said:
> I understand the query. But you would either need to bypass the local
> dns caching resolver or flush the cache afterwards. The second option has
> a race condition, but the first has the problem that we are trying to reduce 
> the
> number of applications that modify /etc/resolv.conf to one (NM).

No, you don't have to bypass or flush the cache.  The cache will hold
the records whether you request validation or not; the difference is in
the answer you get when you query the cache with/without validation
requested.

> That's not very compatible with other fs'es. What if someone is
> upgrading from ext3? Or using brtfs? Or something new? I'd rather see a
> more generic method of writing a timestamp to a well known location.

ext3 also has the last-written field (I think it goes back to ext2 as
well).  I don't know about btrfs.

-- 
Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net>
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