[19661] in Athena Bugs
Re: name resolution on dialups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Aug 19 00:57:13 2001
Message-Id: <200108190457.AAA19916@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: John Carr <jfc@MIT.EDU>
cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Aug 2001 15:10:30 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 00:57:11 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Another relevant fact is that restarting nscd seems to fix the
problem; the resolver then correctly retries "foo.bar." before trying
"foo.bar.mit.edu.". So it appears nscd might be getting into a broken
state. Unfortunately, there are (reportedly) no Solaris 8 patches for
nscd at the moment.
We'll figure out something.
> (I consider adding the default domain to a name already containing a
> dot to be bad behavior, so the ndots tweak seems like the right
> answer.)
I agree, but I'm not sure all of our users would.
