Re: NetworkManager instead of Wicd in ‘%desktop-services’?

[Adam Van Ymeren <adam@vany.ca>]

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> I've noticed the same (lack of DNS resolution) following a reboot for
>>> some minutes and was also wondering what was causing this. I'm using
>>> wicd as part of the %desktop-services, so that specific problem is
>>> probably not related to NetworkManager.
>>
>> Our default nscd config caches lookup failures for 20 seconds by default
>> (see ‘nscd-cache’ in the manual.)  So if you look up a host before
>> networking is up, and it fails, then there’s a window during which
>> lookup will keep failing.
>>
>> I don’t know if that explains what you’re seeing.
>
> It can take much longer than 20 s upon a reboot to have the name
> resolution working again (more than 5 minutes), so that doesn't seem to
> explain it by itself.

Most of the time I have to restart my applications like icecat of emacs
when my network settings change.  I'm using wpa_supplicant and dhclient
by hand rather than wicd.

Something somewhere is caching network information longer than it should
be.