Bug 587297

Summary: resolv.conf updated too soon
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Component: NetworkManagerAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Miroslav Lichvar 2010-04-29 14:44:25 UTC
Description of problem:
When booting with NM and chronyd services enabled, there is sometimes a problem with resolving names. It seems that resolv.conf is updated with servers received from DHCP before the network interfaces are actually configured, which results in getaddrinfo() returning EAI_NONAME error instead of EAI_AGAIN. If chronyd gets EAI_NONAME, it won't try to resolve it later again and the specified server will never be used unless the service is restarted.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-0.8.0-6.git20100408.fc12

How reproducible:
sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create an initscript that will be executed right after NetworkManager and  checks getaddrinfo return code when resolving a name in a loop
2. boot
  
Actual results:
at some point getaddrinfo() returns EAI_NONAME

Expected results:
only EAI_AGAIN or success returned.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dan Williams 2010-06-28 22:20:05 UTC
Can your script dump the output of 'ifconfig <interface>' to a file so we can see whether the interface has an IP address yet?  ANd then also 'route -n' as well.

Comment 2 Miroslav Lichvar 2010-07-20 15:20:52 UTC
Hm, after trying to reproduce it again, it seems that the problem is not that resolv.conf is updated too soon, but that it wasn't removed on last shutdown (might be related to bug #517082).

Removing or replacing the file on NM start would fix it.

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Comment 4 Miroslav Lichvar 2010-11-04 17:15:42 UTC
Still seeing this with NetworkManager-1:0.8.1-9.git20100831.fc14.

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