Bug 5469

Summary:	Network Installs should cache server IP addresses
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Frank Griffin <ftg>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Low	CC:	thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	urpmi	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Frank Griffin 2012-04-18 20:29:08 CEST

I had a cauldron HTTP install going on an internal machine, and bounced my DNS server.  I immediately got an error for the next package to be installed, which tells me that the installer requires DNS resolution for each package request, even if it's using the same server repeatedly.

It seems like making a DNS call once at the start of the install (or whenever a new server comes into play), and then using the IP address directly for subsequent requests would save quite a bit of DNS overhead and network chatter.

Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2012-05-10 15:44:36 CEST

We fork curl to fetch packages which thus lost its cached value on exiting after downloading packages for a transaction so it's not just a matter of caching return of resolver.

Including a DNS cache such as nscd looks a bit overkill to me

Priority: Normal => Low
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 2 Frank Griffin 2012-05-10 16:01:15 CEST

I wouldn't go as far as to recommend adding nscd, since we're only using one server at a time.  What's wrong with doing a gethostbyname() whenever we switch to a server, and then just passing the IP address to curl ?

Comment 3 Thierry Vignaud 2012-05-10 16:08:04 CEST

Fell free to suggest & test a patch for urpm/download.pm.
(See /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.14.2/urpm/download.pm)

Should be done in sync_rel()

Source RPM: (none) => urpmi

Comment 4 Frank Griffin 2012-05-13 21:41:29 CEST

OK, as its an enhancement, leave it to me to play with.  Thanks for the pointer.  I'll brush up on my perl :-)

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:05:15 CEST

Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Manuel Hiebel 2012-06-12 20:45:10 CEST

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2015-04-08 15:56:26 CEST

This is one of 8 hyper-stale bugs and enhancement requests (other than package requests) that are now being closed as old.

Each of them
* is still assigned to BugSquad instead of to a maintainer
* did not see any action since June 2012

If this one is still valid, then please reopen it. 

In that case: don't be shocked that I closed it:
There is more chance it'll get fixed after it's wrongly closed and then reopened again (because of the mails Bugzilla sends to many packagers etc. when there is some action in a bug), than when nothing happens in this report for some more years :-)

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD