On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 01:49:57PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: > If you go back through the previous glibc bugs, you'll find: > > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=984 > > from 2005 which was closed out as "RESOLVED, WONTFIX" with the text: > > There is a solution, already implemented. > Use nscd and nscd -i hosts in the script that rewrites your resolv.conf > (or nsswitch.conf etc.).
Yes, that has been the upstream stance since quite some time now, so I don't know if filing a fresh bug would change that. You could however start a discussion upstream (libc-alpha at sourceware dot org) and make a case for the resolver to watch for changes in resolv.conf. > Problem with that is that no one seems to have gravitated towards > this solution, and I don't blame them. It adds an extra layer of > complexity and makes debugging issues that much more murky. > > A simpler fix is to grab mtime from stat()ing _PATH_RESCONF each > time through res_query() and see if it's changed since the last > time. Perhaps caching the inode # also and checking that, since an > older version of the file might have been renamed as > /etc/resolv.conf. That is conceptually simple, but expensive, since you'll be adding syscalls to every lookup. One may argue that it is not much overhead for a network lookup since the latter will still take up a bulk of the time, but it is an added cost nevertheless. Siddhesh
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