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Re: 2.10 done
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:35:40PM -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> > As previously announced, I've bumped the version and tagged the
> > tree for the 2.10 release. A few last minute changes (and
> > corrections for them) went in but overall the tree has been
> > stable for about two weeks.
> >
> > The user-visible changes include:
>
> distributors that turned off the parallel IPv4-IPv6 lookup when
> including glibc-2.9 (I would say probably majority of them) might want
> to add a bullet-point omitted from NEWS (Ulrich might want to still add
> it too) about the most prominent issue with glibc-2.9, also covered on
> Ulrich's weblog:
>
> * DNS IPv4-IPv6 lookup changed back to parallel version; with
> broken DNS servers (the case e.g. for many ADSL users), you may
> experience long timeouts, once for each process (but eventually
> your request will be resolved) - the solution is to run nscd or
> put 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
>
> (I will prepare a resolv.conf(5) patch soon, too.)
>
> Could you prepare a patch for the offical documentation of glibc as
> well? Otherwise, users will not find this information.
Usually package maintainers should distribute this information to users,
and I don't think Ulrich will be interested in applying this, but here
you go...
2009-05-11 Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
* NEWS: Add a note about IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup changes.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 411c2c3..b023074 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ Version 2.10
* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
+* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS servers
+ (the case e.g. for many ADSL users) - there is a once-per-process
+ timeout. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put 'options single-request'
+ in /etc/resolv.conf.
+
Version 2.9
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer