Re: gmane spam reporting problems moving between networks

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

> The message I'm responding to, is to the head of a thread dealing with
> problems I had with NNTP servers when hibernating and moving my laptop
> between home and work.  I couldn't connect to the server, because Gnus
> couldn't resolve their names.
>
> Now I'm seeing the same problem when exiting a gmane group and trying
> to report spam in that group: Gnus can't find spam.gmane.org, which is
> perfectly pingable from a shell.  
>
> The NNTP problem was most probably caused by libc caching the DNS
> server to use for a process, so that gethostbyname() would issue calls
> to a DNS server that was no longer available.  I got around this
> problem by wrapping the NNTP connections in telnet sessions (new
> telnet processes would get the current DNS server).
>
> Is it possible to do something similar with the gmane spam reporting?
> Either wrap the HTTP requests done from Emacs in a telnet, or use curl
> or wget, or something?

Wouldn't running a DNS server on localhost work?  Then you'd have the
same DNS server address regardless of IP of your local machine.