Re: [BK] disconnected operation

[Martin Dalecki]

On 2004-12-26, at 19:41, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 10:43:13AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 08:27 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > > I suspect that your hostname changes when you disconnect.  Leases 
> > > > are
> > > > issued on a per host basis.  If you make your hostname constant when
> > > > you unplug it should work.  If it doesn't, let us know.
> > >
> > > Well, that's a new one, but no, I have a fixed hostname which dhcp is
> > > forbidden from changing.
> >
> > Let's do a little poll here to find out if it is specific to you or if
> > this is a problem that everyone is having.  Could we get people who
> > use BK disconnected to stand up and be counted?  Does this work for
> > anyone?
>
> I use it whilst on travel too, however i do not have a similar problem 
> as
> described by James but i've noticed that simple operations like `bk vi
> filename` take extremely long;

There are very few name-service implementations out there with proper
error handling out there. Sad world this is ;-) ...

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