NSCD, Fedora, and busted DNS

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Mon Oct 22 09:09:34 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 22:56 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 01:42 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 20:30 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> > > Yo,
> > <snip>
> > > But most randomly annoying today, an strace shows that the Rhythmbox
> > > application[0] thinks it's a good idea to do a DNS lookup *every* time
> > > one changes track...lovely. Really stupid.
> > 
> > And what domain would that be? It wouldn't happen to be:
> > - Amazon.com (covers)
> > or
> > - one of the lyrics websites (lyrics plugin)
> > or
> > - audioscrobbler.com (for the last.fm functionality)
> > 
> > We're working upstream on making all those disabled if NetworkManager
> > doesn't see a network connection. See:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322266
> > 
> > In the meanwhile, those lookups would be normal.
> 
> Right. But even if NetworkManager detects a connection, that doesn't
> mean it's actually working - moving to the track shouldn't block, the
> lookup should be asynchronous ideally. It's still great software! :-)

You didn't say it blocked, it shouldn't. File a bug with a backtrace.




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