Clarification: DNS server is hosted on the same test system as evolution client - DNS updates are instantaneous.
The expected behavior is to re-query DNS record when connection timeout occurred instead of blindly and indefinitely try the same IP address. Eugene. On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 09:24 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > > Connect to an IMAP server, retrieve email. Move IMAP server to > > another > > address, change DNS record, attempt to retrieve email again. > > Evolution > > indefinitely keeps trying previous IP address, displaying an error > > "Connection timed out". > > > > Yes, sounds reasonable to me - in my experience any changes to DNS > records take a little while to settle down. DNS entries have a > lifetime - this lifetime is server configurable and can be anything > from a few minutes to days depending on how often the administrator > of > the DNS thinks the entries are likely to change. The lifetime > allows > the clients to cache the DNS results and most clients won't bother to > query the DNS again until the entry would have expired. > > And it's not an Evolution issue: I very much doubt Evolution is doing > the actual DNS lookups - after all, that's what libraries are for. > > Don't get confused by using utilities such as nslookup - they perform > the DNS queries themselves so by-pass the cache. > _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
