Re: NetworkManager instead of Wicd in ‘%desktop-services’?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Maxim Cournoyer <address@hidden> skribis:

> I've noticed the same (lack of DNS resolution) following a reboot for
> some minutes and was also wondering what was causing this. I'm using
> wicd as part of the %desktop-services, so that specific problem is
> probably not related to NetworkManager.

Our default nscd config caches lookup failures for 20 seconds by default
(see ‘nscd-cache’ in the manual.)  So if you look up a host before
networking is up, and it fails, then there’s a window during which
lookup will keep failing.

I don’t know if that explains what you’re seeing.

Ludo’.