Bug 307489

Summary:	net-dialup/xl2tpd gethostbyname patch
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ivan Ponomarev <gumanzoy>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Dialup Developers <net-dialup>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	jstein
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://homenet.corbina.net/index.php?showtopic=192551
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	gethostbyname patch fixed ebuild

Description Ivan Ponomarev 2010-03-02 14:23:37 UTC

net-dialup/xl2tpd not tries reconnect after host name lookup failed

patch from http://homenet.corbina.net/index.php?showtopic=192551&view=findpost&p=1063626345 fix it

need to set

redial = yes
redial timeout = X
max redials = X

in xl2tpd.conf

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Ivan Ponomarev 2010-03-02 14:26:04 UTC

Created attachment 221799 [details, diff]
gethostbyname patch

Comment 2 Ivan Ponomarev 2010-03-02 14:26:49 UTC

Created attachment 221801 [details]
fixed ebuild

Comment 3 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-08-15 20:34:17 UTC

I've added the patch in version 1.2.6, under the control of dnsretry USE flag.

Comment 4 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2017-07-21 22:44:16 UTC

see also https://github.com/xelerance/xl2tpd/issues/134