2.10 done
Alfred M. Szmidt
ams@gnu.org
Mon May 11 14:28:00 GMT 2009
> 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.
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