Bug 699677

Description of problem:

Im using polipo as a web proxy on a laptop.
It needs to be restarted when nics change because the way polipo does dns lookups.

The networkmanager integration sends "reload" but it seems it must rather send "restart".



I attach a conversation with the polipo author
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From: joakim
Subject: polipo and NetworManager
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.web.polipo.user
To: polipo-users <polipo-users.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:44:15 +0100 (5 weeks, 3 hours, 3 minutes ago)

Fedora provides some form of support between polipo and NetworkManager.
It doesn't work perfectly so I'm trying to debug.

NetworkManager has a rule for Polipo which does this:
	/sbin/chkconfig polipo && /sbin/service polipo reload || :

And the service script does this:

reload() {
    echo -n $"Reloading $prog: "
        killproc -p ${pidfile} $polipo -USR1
        RETVAL=$?
    echo
}

But my problem is that DNS lookups doesn't work after NIC
change. restarting the polipo service works though.

So:
- Should Polipo reset DNS on USR1 
Or:
- Fedora packaging be changed to do restart?

-- 
Joakim Verona
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From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch.fr>
Subject: Re: polipo and NetworManager
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.web.polipo.user
To: joakim
Cc: polipo-users <polipo-users.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:07:04 +0100 (4 weeks, 3 days, 20 hours ago)

>         killproc -p ${pidfile} $polipo -USR1

That's not correct -- SIGUSR1 only reloads the forbidden file, not the
config file.  Polipo should not have a reload action, only force-reload
(which should be a synonim of restart).

> - Should Polipo reset DNS on USR1 

Yes, I think it should.  This is a known limitation.

--jch
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How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use polipo as proxy
2. switch nic
3. notice that polipo dns fails
  
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