Re: [Evolution] 3.16.3: Failed to refresh folder "INBOX",

[Zan Lynx <zlynx acm org>]

On 06/24/2015 11:05 AM, Pete Biggs wrote:
> Gnome applications tend to use the GIO libraries.  And
> DNS querying programs like nslookup, host and dig go directly to the
> DNS server.
>
> Things are complicate further by systems such as nscd - "Name Service
> Cache Daemon" that, as it says in the man page, "provides a cache for
> the most common name service requests" - and that includes hosts.  The
> default TTL for hosts in nscd is 1 hour.

The only time I see references to nscd is in horrible confusing bugs.

If they ignore the DNS TTL and set it to 1 hour I can see why.

I sure hope that GIO hasn't copied that stupid idea. A more probable GIO
user bug is doing the resolve and saving the address object for later
use, never considering that the IP will be different next time.