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

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On August 2, 2017 10:26:10 AM EDT, Adam Van Ymeren <adam@vany.ca> wrote:
>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.

FWIW, I was testing the dns with 'ping'.

Maxim