Re: Network issues

[Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>]

Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> writes:

> Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> writes:
>
>> Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> writes:
>>
>>> It seems that Emacs is caching its network address and thereby
>>> confusing itself.
>>
>> I don't think it does... what you're seeing might be due to a change in
>> your DNS servers: if you get the new address via DHCP on the new network
>> then you'll probably get new DNS servers, and the libc resolver caches
>> them by default.
>>
>> If that's the problem you just need to install glibc's nscd daemon and
>> run `nscd -i hosts' to force the daemon the reload resolv.conf.
>
> Romain,
>
> You rock. I installed nscd and now Gnus survives the network changes
> even without running "nscd -i hosts". Thank you!

I may have spoken too soon. While I was able to switch between an
Earthlink and T-Mobile network yesterday, Gnus failed to find Gmane
today on an AT&T network.

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