Re: Problems, off and online
Uwe Brauer <oub(a)mat.ucm.es> writes:
>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup
<dak(a)gnu.org> writes:
David> Uwe Brauer <oub(a)mat.ucm.es> writes:
David> FWIW, Emacs displays similar behavior at my site. I suspect
David> the name resolver not being made to reread /etc/resolv.conf
David> (which gets updated when making a connection) or something
David> similar.
David> It is no problem if no network access is done with the
David> freshly started Emacs before the connection is made. But if
David> there is, there is nothing short of exiting and restarting
David> Emacs to get it on the net.
Thanks for the confirmation, however I have the impression that the
problem is more subtle, than simply reading resolv.conf, for I have
shutdown my LAN (ifconfig eth1 down) connection, open xemacs and start
the connection, then everything is fine. So it seems that the ppp
connection somehow behaves differently!
I don't see how this contradicts my guess. The ppp connection will
temporarily update resolv.conf.
I have in
/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/0000usepeerdns
the following:
#!/bin/sh -e
# this variable is only set if the usepeerdns pppd option is being used
[ "$USEPEERDNS" ] || exit 0
# exit if the resolvconf package is installed
[ -x /sbin/resolvconf ] && exit 0
# create the file if it does not exist
if [ ! -e /etc/resolv.conf ]; then
: > /etc/resolv.conf
fi
# follow any symlink to find the real file
REALRESOLVCONF=$(readlink --canonicalize /etc/resolv.conf)
# merge the new nameservers with the other options from the old configuration
{
cat /etc/ppp/resolv.conf
grep --invert-match '^nameserver[[:space:]]' "$REALRESOLVCONF" ||
true
} > "$REALRESOLVCONF.tmp"
# backup the old configuration and install the new one
cp -a "$REALRESOLVCONF" "$REALRESOLVCONF.pppd-backup"
mv -f "$REALRESOLVCONF.tmp" "$REALRESOLVCONF"
# restart nscd because resolv.conf has changed
if [ -e /var/run/nscd.pid ]; then
/etc/init.d/nscd restart || true
fi
exit 0
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum