The state of resolv.conf

Ahmed Kamal email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com
Tue Sep 16 11:34:06 UTC 2008


Is there any current daemon that does this effect of directing name
resolution to specific servers according to IP ranges and/or domain names,
with the option of adding/removing servers on the fly ? Does dnsmasq do that
?

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Nils Philippsen <nils at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:05 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>
> > Another problem with modifying resolv.conf is that most processes only
> > read it once, usually shortly after starting up, so any changes that
> > happen after that don't get picked up by existing processes. So for
> > instance you could have a web browser that couldn't resolve names from a
> > VPN tunnel that had been brought up after the browser had been started.
>
> Which is a bug IMO. If applications don't use the glibc supplied
> functions for name-resolving, they should at least reinvent the wheel
> properly and check for changes to resolv.conf.
>
> Nils
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