On glibc's resolver

[Dimitrios Apostolou]

On Wed, 26 Dec 2012, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
>
> I have been tracing weird behaviour of my mail client (alpine) and ended up 
> in getaddrinfo() calls, which are handled by glibc's resolver. In particular, 
> when I connect my laptop to different networks and the previous DNS server is 
> unreachable, resolver never re-reads its cache and all queries timeout after

Sorry for not being clear, I meant never re-reads /etc/resolv.conf.

> several retries.
> [...]