I can easily imagine a lot of people that just installed linux being lost, and rebooting their machine to see "if it works this way". And the worst part is, it does work after the reboot...
Someone should have a talk with the glib/nsdc people ;-)
This has been taken care of ini the design already. Take a look at /etc/nscd.conf, starting with SuSE-6.4 or 7.0 (don't know exactly) there is a line like enable-cache hosts no This turns off that feature completely. It may make sense! negative-time-to-live hosts 20 This makes that "host not found" for that entry doesn't get older than 20 seconds.
Ciao, Roberto.
Roman.
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