Comment 50 for bug 1003842
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| Sergio Callegari (callegar) wrote Re: [Bug 1003842] Re: dnsmasq sometimes fails to resolve private names in networks with non-equivalent nameservers | #50 |
On 04/02/2013 15:40, Simon Kelley wrote:
> On 03/02/13 07:48, Thomas Hood wrote:
>>> there's still the unresolved question
>>> of whether re-enabling --strict-order
>>> will suffice as a workaround, since
>>> 12.10 relies on DBus to populate the
>>> nameservers. Is there any extra
>>> information on this?
>> Please try it and report back. :-)
>>
>> (Put "strict-order" in a file in /etc/NetworkMan
>> network-manager; make sure all dnsmasq processes are dead; start
>> network-manager.)
>>
> It doesn't work: It will always use the same server first, but the order
> of servers given to the DBus interface isn't preserved internally, and
> actually changes each time the DBus interface is used.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon.
Isn't it possible to change dnsmasq behavior to query the servers in any order
or in parallel and in the case the first server to reply says "I don't know"
avoid relying on that information, rather wait and see if in a reasonable time
some other server answers "I do"?
With the current behavior, whenever I need to access a captive portal, I
basically have to press the "reload page" button 50 times until for some reasons
the order in which the nameservers reply becomes the good one.
Cheers,
Sergio