On Thursday 15 March 2007, Patrice Bouvard wrote: > Le Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:57:04 +0200, > > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > don't want to have to keep editing resolv.conf > > Then, don't edit it every time you change network. Just keep it with > a lot of entries. If one doesn't work, the next one will be used. > Name resolution could be a little bit slow with a lot of entries and > only the last one working. > > Is there any problem to this kind of configuration ?
Yes, the resolver will only ever use the first three name servers and will give up if they all fail, regardless of how many entries are in the file. -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
