From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83841 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: dns.el: forget DNS servers in new network Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 06:22:20 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87bo21u3v7.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> References: Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383477927 13661 80.91.229.3 (3 Nov 2013 11:25:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 11:25:27 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M32097@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Nov 03 12:25:30 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VcvoA-0000O7-3h for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 12:25:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Vcvnn-0005dB-28; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 05:25:07 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Vcvnm-0005d0-1V for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 05:25:06 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Vcvnl-0004Jl-87 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 05:25:05 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Vcvnj-0005jl-SQ for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 12:25:03 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vcvni-00006K-Oa for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 12:25:02 +0100 Original-Received: from c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([98.229.61.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 12:25:02 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 12:25:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DOohlhN/x2Inf3DgXYUZIuP2jd4= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83841 Archived-At: On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 22:02:39 +0100 Magnus Henoch wrote: MH> Thus the patch below. It checks whether the names and IP addresses of MH> all network interfaces have changed, and if so, rereads /etc/resolv.conf MH> instead of using the value of dns-servers. What do you think about it? I like it. I wonder if it can be used more generally to find out if the network has changed, a pretty common mobile case that can produce connection timeouts. Ted