From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pierre Ynard Subject: Re: [RFD] First draft of RDNSS-in-RA support for IPv6 DNS autoconfiguration Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:23:31 +0200 Message-ID: <20070623082331.GA23309@via.ecp.fr> References: <450943.57686.qm@web25715.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: David Miller , dlstevens@us.ibm.com, simon@fire.lp0.eu, cscott@laptop.org To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from durga.via.ecp.fr ([138.195.130.75]:60400 "EHLO durga.via.ecp.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752585AbXFWIyM (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:54:12 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070622.221229.125566330.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jun 23, 2007, David Miller wrote: > From: David Stevens > > Auto-configured addresses are used by the kernel. It has to > > have those addresses. But the kernel doesn't do DNS look-ups, or > > write resolv.conf; that's the difference, for me. >=20 > I totally agree with David, this stuff definitely does not belong > in the kernel. It is my understanding that you think that IP stack configuration belongs in the kernel whereas DNS does not, right? Then I have a question: does RS-RA management belong in the kernel or not? --=20 Pierre Ynard WTS #51 - No phone "Une =E2me dans un corps, c'est comme un dessin sur une feuille de papi= er."