On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:32:09PM +0200, Luca Tettamanti wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Aurelien Jarno <aurel...@aurel32.net> wrote: > > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 09:59:22PM +0200, Luca Tettamanti wrote: > >> The option single-request works, the automagic workaround does not, > > > > That's a good news. > > > >> i.e. I always see the two requests going out in parallel. > >> Actually I'm not sure I understand how it's supposes to work: if the > >> first request fails usually the caller gives up, no? > > > > The first request done by a program should timeout, and the second > > request by the same program should then be done sequentially, like when > > "single-request" is set. > > That's not what is happening though. I try to open a page in konqueror > (I also tried other programs, it's not specific to konqueror): I see > two request (A and AAAA) going out at the same time; konqueror says > it's unable to resolve the address - so far so good. I try to reload
That's the problem. When I say it should timeout, I mean it should take long time to resolve, but at the end an answer should be returned. > the page and I still see both requests going out at the same time > (failure again). With single-request I see the first query, its answer > and only then the second query and its reply - as expected. > Furthermore I fear the workaround won't work for one-shot programs, > like apt helpers, right? > It should work, with just a longer timeout. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
