From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Arlott Subject: Re: [RFD] First draft of RDNSS-in-RA support for IPv6 DNS autoconfiguration Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 02:17:46 +0100 Message-ID: <467C74BA.9060809@simon.arlott.org.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "C. Scott Ananian" , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Stevens Return-path: Received: from proxima.lp0.eu ([85.158.45.36]:40287 "EHLO proxima.lp0.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750769AbXFWBRy (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:17:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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