Improved DNS resolving for laptops?

Petter Reinholdtsen pere@hungry.com
Mon Jul 26 16:42:00 GMT 2004


[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.



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