From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Maxim Cournoyer Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_NetworkManager_instead_of?= =?UTF-8?Q?_Wicd_in_=E2=80=98=25desktop-services=E2=80=99=3F?= Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 14:58:13 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87iniaf06l.fsf@gnu.org> <87bmo1ltus.fsf@netris.org> <87zibk7ptz.fsf@gmail.com> <87379c7n5q.fsf@gnu.org> <87r2wut82u.fsf@gmail.com> <87k22mm4fx.fsf@vany.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55686) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de1tG-0002v5-4U for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 12:25:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de1tD-0002wM-IM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 12:25:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87k22mm4fx.fsf@vany.ca> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Adam Van Ymeren Cc: guix-devel Hi, On August 2, 2017 10:26:10 AM EDT, Adam Van Ymeren wrote: >Maxim Cournoyer writes: > >> ludo@gnu=2Eorg (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: >> >>> Maxim Cournoyer skribis: >>> >>>> I've noticed the same (lack of DNS resolution) following a reboot >for >>>> some minutes and was also wondering what was causing this=2E I'm >using >>>> wicd as part of the %desktop-services, so that specific problem is >>>> probably not related to NetworkManager=2E >>> >>> Our default nscd config caches lookup failures for 20 seconds by >default >>> (see =E2=80=98nscd-cache=E2=80=99 in the manual=2E) So if you look up= a host before >>> networking is up, and it fails, then there=E2=80=99s a window during w= hich >>> lookup will keep failing=2E >>> >>> I don=E2=80=99t know if that explains what you=E2=80=99re seeing=2E >> >> 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=2E > >Most of the time I have to restart my applications like icecat of emacs >when my network settings change=2E I'm using wpa_supplicant and dhclient >by hand rather than wicd=2E > >Something somewhere is caching network information longer than it >should >be=2E FWIW, I was testing the dns with 'ping'=2E Maxim