[Libvir] PATCH: Use --strict-order with dnsmasq

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:24:35PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> A bug reported by David Lutterkort...
> 
> The 'man resolv.conf' docs for 'nameserver' say
> 
> [quote]
>        nameserver Name server IP address
>               Internet  address  (in  dot  notation)  of a name server that the
>               resolver should query.  Up to MAXNS (currently 3, see <resolv.h>)
>               name servers may be listed, one per keyword.  If there are multi-
>               ple servers, the resolver  library  queries  them  in  the  order
>               listed.   If no nameserver entries are present, the default is to
>               use the name server on the local machine.  (The algorithm used is
>               to  try  a name server, and if the query times out, try the next,
>               until out of name  servers,  then  repeat  trying  all  the  name
>               servers until a maximum number of retries are made.)
> [/quote]
> 
> While 'man dnsmasq' docs for 'strict-order' say:
> 
> [quote]
>        -o, --strict-order
>               By  default,  dnsmasq  will  send  queries to any of the upstream
>               servers it knows about and tries to favour servers to  are  known
>               to be up. Setting this flag forces dnsmasq to try each query with
>               each server strictly in the order they appear in /etc/resolv.conf
> [/quote]
> 
> So by default, the algorithm dnsmasq uses for DNS lookups is 
> 
>  a) Different from that use by GLibC
>  b) Wrong
> 
> Thus I think we should always use --strict-order when running dnsmasq. The
> attached patch adds this

Committed.

Dan.
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