On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 03:10:59PM +0300, EQU wrote:
> What I am not 100% sure about is that did /etc/resolv.conf have the IP
> address of the now unreachable DNS server instead of localhost when I
> started ircd 81 days ago. It is possible although unlikely.
[Not really a bug, possibly a feature request. bugs@ taken
off, since those people are basically all on coder-com anyway. Kev
also taken off CC, he'll see this anyway.]
As I'm sure you've noticed, ircu has no nameserver
configuration options. That's normally handled on a system-wide
basis via resolv.conf. If ircu is querying the wrong server, it's
doing so because that's what resolv.conf told libresolv to do when
you started the process.
The resolver isn't going to pick up those changes unless
it gets re-initialized, and there's no good way to do that from
within ircu (currently). This is maybe a feature request
(please note that .11 is feature-frozen, iirc, so it'll be a
while), but resolv.conf is not something that needs to be changed
very often, if at all, and isn't a high priority for most people.
Generally speaking, I'd recommend running a current rev
of BIND or some other caching nameserver locally, and possibly
configuring a trusted (emphasis on the trusted; these should also
be running current code revs) backup nameserver or two additionally.
> I have /rehash'ed several times, doesn't help. I just tried "/rehash
> q" that doesn't seem to help either.
You're gonna have to /restart. Sorry :/
--msa
