Re: --disable-dns-cache patch

2003-09-10 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Thanks for the patch. I'm curious, in what circumstances would one > >> want to use this option? (I'm also asking because of the manual in > >> which I'd like to explain why the option is useful.) > >

Re: --disable-dns-cache patch

2003-09-10 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Thanks for the patch. I'm curious, in what circumstances would one >> want to use this option? (I'm also asking because of the manual in >> which I'd like to explain why the option is useful.) > > e.g., with RFC 3041 temporary ipv6 addresses. Do th

Re: --disable-dns-cache patch

2003-09-10 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Jeremy Reeve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Please consider this, my trivial --disable-dns-cache patch for wget. > > > > ChangeLog should read something like: > > > > 2003-09-07 Jeremy S. Reeve <[EMA

RE: --disable-dns-cache patch

2003-09-08 Thread Herold Heiko
> From: Hrvoje Niksic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Note that Wget already knows how to use multiple addresses returned by > DNS servers. > > Perhaps it should attempt to re-resolve the address if *all* the > (cached) addresses fail? Would make sense. In case of the more usual failure one address

Re: --disable-dns-cache patch

2003-09-08 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Herold Heiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which makes me think, possibly that switch should be three-state, not only > on/off, with the third state "auto": normally use the cache, but try to > resolve again after every kind of error, Funny enough, errors were the original incentive for putting t

RE: --disable-dns-cache patch

2003-09-08 Thread Herold Heiko
--Original Message- > From: Jeremy Reeve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 10:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: --disable-dns-cache patch > > > > > Thanks for the patch. I'm curiou

Re: --disable-dns-cache patch

2003-09-08 Thread Jeremy Reeve
> Thanks for the patch. I'm curious, in what circumstances would one want > to use this option? (I'm also asking because of the manual in which I'd > like to explain why the option is useful.) I'm not really so sure myself: It was listed in the TODO. I need to improve my C so I thought what b

Re: --disable-dns-cache patch

2003-09-07 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Jeremy Reeve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please consider this, my trivial --disable-dns-cache patch for wget. > > ChangeLog should read something like: > > 2003-09-07Jeremy S. Reeve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * host.c, init.c, main.c, options.h: