gethby* and dynamic DNS assignment

[Ulrich Drepper]

Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:

> I decided to handle this problem with the following patch.  What do
> you think?  This leads unfortunatly to a stat with every gethostby*
> call.

And this really is no option.  Dynamic update of IP address
information has to happen differently.  Either update named
dynamically or do something like restarting nscd.  If you update the
input files and then restart nscd there is never a time when the new
information is not available.  It might only be that some programs are
not using nscd.

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