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From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Export DNSSL RA option to userspace
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:18:24 -0600
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Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
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On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 14:43 +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:10:15 +0000
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 14:43 +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > > RFC 6106 specifies a new RA option for DNS resolver configuration that
> > > therefore needs to end up in userspace.
> > > 
> > > This first patch just exports the new option, but I started thinking
> > > that this seems overly complex that the kernel needs to be updated
> > > every time there is something new of interest to userspace in the RA.
> > > So I also have a second patch that exports everything that the kernel
> > > doesn't want.
> > > 
> > > Patches only compile tested so far as I'm still hacking away at
> > > userspace. Comments very much welcome though.
> > 
> > Totally untested userspace support:
> > http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/connman.git
> > 
> 
> Tested userspace support in the form of NetworkManager: ;)
> 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637077

And pushed to master and stable branches too.  Thanks for the work on
this!

Dan


> And a radvd to send things out:
> 
> http://lists.litech.org/pipermail/radvd-devel-l/2010-December/000507.html
> 
> Rgds