On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:43:19AM +0000, Alan Post wrote:
> In article <296790779.1046204894@[192.168.187.5]>, Mark E. Perkins wrote:
> > Is there a way to get a reload of /etc/resolv.conf without rebooting?
> > What I really want to do is add a newly configured local nameserver to
> > the list, but would like to do it w/o rebooting.
> 
> Just change it, and your machine will follow.  No need for reboot.

That's not true.  _PATH_RESCONF is only loaded at resolver library init time
(first use of a resolver function) and isn't reloaded after that.  Processes
using the libc resolver will not see changes to /etc/resolv.conf after its
initial reading of it.

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