On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 09:09, Thomas Bellman <bell...@nsc.liu.se> wrote: > On 2011-02-18 17:16, Derek J. Balling wrote: > >> But also my complaint is: Why *isn't* puppet-agent noticing >> that resolv.conf has changed? This seems like something that >> would only be caused by not using the standard gethostbyname() >> calls and such, > since *those* should reflect the change in >> resolv.conf almost immediately.... :-/ > > Except that they don't... At least the GNU libc implementation does > not re-read resolv.conf unless you call res_init(). I'm attaching > a test program that you can use to verify it yourself. It will call > gethostbyname() twice, optionally re-initialize the resolver before > the second call. You are supposed to change your resolv.conf between > the two calls.
Just to be specific: puppet doesn't do anything except use those standard functions, so we are not actually capable of doing anything portable to solve these problems. It really isn't so much "puppet ignores the change to..." as "the OS libraries ignore..." Daniel -- ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ✉ Daniel Pittman <dan...@puppetlabs.com> ✆ Contact me via gtalk, email, or phone: +1 (877) 575-9775 ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
