Re: URL field / Loading page images / Refreshing DNS cache

Johannes Hofmann <[email protected]> writes:

[...]
>> > To make the switch to the current snapshot, I had, sadly, to terminate
>> > an instance of 3.0.5 that had been running continuously for 90 days
>> > without any issues.  But to get that much up time it was necessary to
>> > add a little code so that SIGUSR1 would call a_Dns_freeall() and
>> > a_Dns_init(), otherwise (unless I am missing something) Dillo will
>> > persist in using the cached lookup indefinitely and not detect when
>> > the IP address has changed.  So maybe some sort of key binding could
>> > be added that would flush the cache when needed?
>> 
>> good point. However I'd like to avoid another key-binding and rather
>> do the right thing automatically.
>> I could think of a general DNS entry timeout of a couple of seconds.
>> In many cases DNS responses are cached at OS-level too respecting
>> lifetime values given by the server.
>
> Firefox has an option to configure the DNS cache expiration
> (network.dnsCacheExpiration).
> Attached patch implements a similar feature for Dillo.
>
> Cheers,
> Johannes

That was fast!  Thanks for this; I will try it out.