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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: bug#22209: name resolution failures in installer image
Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 22:26:31 +0200
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) skribis:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
> [...]
>
>>> Could this be related to cached resolution failures in nscd?  Have you
>>> tried restarting the nscd service?
>>
>> That sounds likely.
>>
>> Nscd caches negative lookups, but normally only for 20 seconds (see
>> %nscd-minimal-caches in (gnu system install)).  So if you look up
>> hydra.gnu.org before the network is set up, it=E2=80=99ll remember for 2=
0s that
>> this is a lookup failure, even if you=E2=80=99ve set up the network in t=
he
>> meantime.
>
> Commit c96ba2c disables caching of lookup failures altogether.

0.10.0 uses this fix and we haven=E2=80=99t heard from name resolution fail=
ures
in the installer image, so I=E2=80=99m closing it.

Ludo=E2=80=99.