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Description of problem: More of your users are going to be using this option as more deploys of RHEL 6 go out. See here for they why: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=4399340#post4399340 This option is not currently documented and it needs to be. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch How reproducible: man resolv.conf look for single-request-open I have filed an upstream bug here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38542 This issue also effect Fedora 15, and probably rawhide too.
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Created attachment 524346 [details] Proposed patch This has been taken from the KCS article attached to the case.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1571.html
Unless I am missing something here, even after updating to RHEL 6.2 I cannot see this in the man page, I can see another overlay the EDNS0 options but not the single-request-open option. man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch man-pages-overrides-6.2.3-2.el6.noarch -Erinn
I see this sub-paragraph in "man 5 resolv.conf" under options: single-request-reopen (since glibc 2.9) The resolver uses the same socket for the A and AAAA requests. Some hardware mistakenly only sends back one reply. When that happens the client sytem will sit and wait for the second reply. Turning this option on changes this behavior so that if two requests from the same port are not handled correctly it will close the socket and open a new one before sending the second request. man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch man-pages-overrides-6.2.3-2.el6.noarch
Hmm pretty clearly I am doing somehting wrong. Looked on multiple 6.2 systems after the update and was unable to see that paragraph. Glad though that other people can.
manpath was bad, this works just fine, sorry for all the noise.
I see that option documented on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago) system, which claims at the bottom of the man page: "This page is part of release 3.22 of the Linux man-pages project." However, it isn't in the Fedora-17 resolv.conf man page, which claims: "This page is part of release 3.35 of the Linux man-pages project." Nor is it in the git HEAD at the man-pages project. I'm not sure what the process is for moving fixes across projects, but something has slipped throught the cracks here that could be better. Just sayin'.
Thanks for the notice Todd. I'll fix this in Fedora. (And thanks for submitting this to upstream). I am going to review man-pages bugs in RHEL and fix them in Fedora, it looks like there are more bugs like this one.. peter