On Monday 09 February 2009 04:33:54 Tobias Klausmann wrote: > On Mon, 02 Feb 2009, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > > If it works, I'll test drive it for a while and report back. > > I've been running a patched glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1 for a week > now. Nothing broke and I've been unable to trigger the lost > packet syndrome by using getaddrinfo(). I was still able to > produce it by sending UDP packets myself, but that was to be > expected. > > So in essence, the patch I mentioned "works". We could use it > should we want to have a glibc 2.9. On the bug mentioned earlier > (where I got the patch from), one of the glibc guys mentions that > more work is planned for the resolver part of glibc, so this > whole ordeal may pass us.
that patch is already in the glibc patchset, i just havent released it yet. guess i could do that this weekend. -mike