Re: DNS problem

[Xavier Maillard]

  On Saturday, 23 September 2006, William Xu wrote:
> Hi there, 
> 
> If DNS doesn't work before starting emacs, and after startup, i fix DNS
> problem. Then i find emacs still has DNS problem, e.g., it couldn't
> connect irc (using erc) or newsgroups by hostname. I restarted emacs, it
> works. Is this normal?

That's a known "issue" (not to say bug) with the libc resolver. I
also suffered of it some time ago and fixed it with a very small
patch agains the resolver.

I can try to see if I can find it and send it to you.
-- 
Xavier