Re: PROBLEMS WITH DNS

[Vadim Lebedev <vadim@mbdsys.com>]

Paulo Marques wrote:

> Vadim Lebedev wrote:
>
>> Eduardo Franceschini wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>> I can get an IP, but when I go to /etc/resolv.conf , I don't have an 
>>> IP for
>>> DNS server... somebody know what to do?
>>
>> [...]
>> Maybe one why to do it is to modify kernale mode dhcp client to 
>> create a procfs entry containig info for resolv.conf
>> and have /etc/resolv.com  to be symlink to procfs entry
>
>
> I'd say this is just the opposite direction of where things seem to be 
> going nowadays.
>
> AFAICS, the current solution to this problem is to use initrd / 
> initramfs with a user-space dhcp client and nice script to get the DNS 
> information into /etc/resolv.conf.
>
> With this in place you can even drop the DHCP / NFS-root support from 
> the kernel and have it all done in user-space.
>
> This seems to be the current trend, and I wouldn't be surprised if the 
> options for IP auto config and NFS root were dropped from mainline in 
> the future.
>
Kernel mode dhcp client solutions allows muuch faster boot sequences...
for embedded stuff 15-20 secs boot speed advantage is important....

Vadim

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