[ale] Fedora 13 DNS weirdness

[Joe Knapka]

On 08/09/2010 10:36 AM, Greg Clifton wrote:
> Well, then I suppose enlightenment is not to be found through google 
> ;-) Or else some other part of your anatomy needs to be googled off, 
> perhaps your fingers?


Perhaps.  I found it extremely frustrating that my usual sources of 
information (apropos, man, info) and some geeky tools (tcpdump, strace) 
led to no enlightenment whatsoever on this issue.  The googling took 
place later, when I had a working network connection, and was equally 
un-enlightening.

Which makes me genuinely wonder: am I just stupid?  Is there some source 
of enlightenment that I'm completely missing?  If an experienced Linux 
user like myself could not find this critical piece of information (nscd 
must be restarted when moving between wifi networks) using system-local 
documentation and tools, then what hope for the newbie?

-- JK


> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Joe Knapka <jknapka at kneuro.net 
> <mailto:jknapka at kneuro.net>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks, Jim.  Since Slackware is pissing me off by not even
>     recognizing my wifi card, I'm going back to F13 for a bit.
>
>     Was there some obvious place I could have found out about the need
>     to restart nscd when moving between networks? (And for the love of
>     all that's holy, why doesn't the all-singing, all-dancing Network
>     Manager just do that automatically?)  I googled my ass off without
>     achieving any enlightenment.
>

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