wwwoffled with changing dns

Massimo B. · Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 11:15 am Post subject: wwwoffled with changing dns

Hello.

I even wrote with the author of wwwoffled. He said, that this behaviour is normal:
The daemon doesn't notice if dns server changes. This happens to me, if I am on the way with my laptop or turn on vpn.
Every time I have to restart wwwoffled.
Is there a way to have a fixed alias for changing dns servers?
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swanson · Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 12:15 pm Post subject:

I used to use wwwoffle and the author is correct though erring on the safe side. I presume you have read the wwwoffle FAQ Q3.2 which explains the authors reasoning?

If you don't want to use a local DNS server such as dnsmasq which monitors changes to resolv.conf, it is probably safe under Linux to add a res_init() call after each child is forked to serve a request.
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