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Re: Improved DNS resolving for laptops?

From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry dot com>
To: libc-alpha at gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:59:28 +0200
Subject: Re: Improved DNS resolving for laptops?
Bcc: Petter Reinholdtsen <petter dot reinholdtsen at usit dot uio dot no>
References: <E1BnwjW-0004mX-VG@saruman.uio.no> <m33c3iai7m.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> <873c3f9w9u.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <20040726083843.GH11990@saruman.uio.no> <1090856762.3371.1371.camel@localhost.localdomain>

[Owen Taylor]
> Consider a desktop application - I plug in my laptop at work - is 
> it useful if the resolve.conf changes are noticed 10 minutes later?
> 
> I think it's basically binary - apps get the change on the next
> lookup or they are broken from the users point of view. Any mechanism
> that implements something less than that isn't particularly useful.

Well, combined with a reload on resolver errors, it would take shorter
time if the old DNS server is unavailable.

But I agree with you that users will not accept to wait for 10 minutes
before the machine work in a new environment.

References:
- Improved DNS resolving for laptops?
  - From: Petter Reinholdtsen
- Re: Improved DNS resolving for laptops?
  - From: Paul Jarc
- Re: Improved DNS resolving for laptops?
  - From: Nix
- Re: Improved DNS resolving for laptops?
  - From: Petter Reinholdtsen
- Re: Improved DNS resolving for laptops?
  - From: Owen Taylor

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