From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: cristi.magherusan@net.utcluj.ro
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: trivial DNS issues
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:37:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BBE201.60703@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1220272261.19757.11.camel@localhost>
Cristi Magherusan wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 14:14 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> Cristi Magherusan wrote:
>>
>>> Those who have installed a local DNS server may need that stuff, but we
>>> can check every entries of resolv.conf and see if we can connect to
>>> their DNS server, and use in our VM the first one that could be reached.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> The network maybe down when the VM is started, or the dns server may be
>> down, or ...
>> Maybe we should forward the host's dns servers to the guest, replacing
>> 127.0.0.1 by 10.0.2.2.
>>
> Then we should forward them all, but the localhost one should be tested
> and skipped if unavailable.
>
Why? A local application will have exactly the same problems with a
broken dns server on localhost, as a virtual machine with that address
forwarded. And if the the dns server is later fixed, both the local
application and the guest will recover.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-01 12:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1220263041.28006.5.camel@localhost>
2008-09-01 10:29 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: trivial DNS issues Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 10:57 ` Cristi Magherusan
2008-09-01 11:14 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 12:31 ` Cristi Magherusan
2008-09-01 12:37 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-09-01 14:35 ` Cristi Magherusan
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