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Date: Mon,  5 Mar 2007 13:33:46 -0500
From: geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com
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Subject: [9fans] dns changes
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I've pushed to sources changes to ndb/dns intended to improve the
effectiveness of its caching.  Thanks to Dave Presotto for locating
the specific problems.

I've also attempted to make dns's diagnostics in /sys/log/dns more
specific, to pinpoint the client sending bad requests and to detail
the errors in the requests.  Some of the diagnostics are still
somewhat cryptic; I plan to improve them as we get more experience
with them.  Some errors characteristic of MS Windows are detected and
not logged to avoid filling the logs with complaints about systems
that cannot be fixed (except by an OS upgrade).  Seriously
misformatted DNS requests now draw replies with error flags set, so
clients at least get feedback that they are in error.

dns processes now have their names (visible with ps -a) set to
indicate what they are doing.  The internal %R formatting code is now
more robust against incomplete Req structures being printed.

ndb(8) has been updated to reflect all this and had its formatting
slightly altered to improve legibility.