Hi, On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 08:31:05AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > And who and what would change resolv.conf between off- and online, > and why is that necessary?
In my case, the nameservers are configured via DHCP only after the PPP link is established. Also, when I connect my notebook to a different network, I want to reconfigure my connection settings without having to reboot. > Is there sustainable evidence that resolv.conf changes between off- and > online? At least once, for the initial connection (after reboot or after moving to a different network), it does. > Is really *stale* nameserver information cached inside libc or in > fetchmail's context on behalf of libc's or libresolv's code? If so, it's > still a libc/libresolv bug. Yes. I've seen discussion about this here [1]. Apparently the concern is the additional workload of checking for an updated resolv.conf all the time. Regards, Clemens [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2005-August/004245.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
