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From: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
To: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "C. Scott Ananian" <cscott@laptop.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFD] First draft of RDNSS-in-RA support for IPv6 DNS autoconfiguration
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 02:17:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <467C74BA.9060809@simon.arlott.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF0D7F9D29.61F86942-ON88257303.0005AD2A-88257303.0005D48C@us.ibm.com>

On 23/06/07 02:04, David Stevens wrote:
>         Why not make the application that writes resolv.conf
> also listen on a raw ICMPv6 socket? I don't believe you'd need
> any kernel changes, then, and it seems pretty simple and
> straightforward.

Because then it requires yet another network daemon, RA in 
the kernel means there's no need for one to manage adding 
auto-configured IP addresses... what's wrong with doing the 
same for DNS?

I don't think it should be in resolv.conf format though. Can't 
you make a change to glibc too to have it use it properly?

Something like "hosts: files rdnss dns" or an option that can 
be added to resolv.conf?

-- 
Simon Arlott

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-23  1:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-22 23:26 [RFD] First draft of RDNSS-in-RA support for IPv6 DNS autoconfiguration C. Scott Ananian
2007-06-22 23:39 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-23  0:09   ` C. Scott Ananian
2007-06-23  2:11     ` Dan Williams
2007-06-23  9:07     ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-23 20:41       ` David Miller
2007-06-22 23:42 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-23  1:04 ` David Stevens
2007-06-23  1:17   ` Simon Arlott [this message]
2007-06-23  4:30     ` David Stevens
2007-06-23  4:50       ` Simon Arlott
2007-06-23  5:12       ` David Miller
2007-06-23  8:23         ` Pierre Ynard
2007-06-24 19:05     ` Olaf Kirch
2007-06-23 13:25   ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2007-06-23 14:47     ` C. Scott Ananian
2007-06-23 16:40       ` Simon Arlott
2007-06-23 16:48       ` David Stevens
2007-06-23 16:51         ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2007-06-23 17:45           ` David Stevens
2007-06-23 18:13             ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2007-06-23 18:51               ` David Stevens
2007-06-23 19:18                 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2007-06-23 20:27             ` Pierre Ynard
2007-06-25  2:17       ` Dan Williams
2007-06-25  2:53         ` David Miller

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