From 57be3fd79a418b14e417e9a6b96f05dcb99932ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ulrich Drepper Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 09:07:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Describe nss_dns parallel lookup workaround in 2.10 NEWS. --- NEWS | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9ba8f3579c..5393e73ee7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -53,6 +53,13 @@ Version 2.10 * Handling for group shadow files has been added. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. +* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS + servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS + server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout + in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put + 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf. + Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. + Version 2.9