netdev - Re: [RFD] First draft of RDNSS-in-RA support for IPv6 DNS autoconfiguration

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Message-ID: <20070623082331.GA23309@via.ecp.fr>
Date:	Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:23:31 +0200
From:	Pierre Ynard <linkfanel@...oo.fr>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, dlstevens@...ibm.com,
	simon@...e.lp0.eu, cscott@...top.org
Subject: Re: [RFD] First draft of RDNSS-in-RA support for IPv6 DNS autoconfiguration

On Sat, Jun 23, 2007, David Miller wrote:
> From: David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
> >         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.
> 
> 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?

-- 
Pierre Ynard
WTS #51 - No phone
"Une âme dans un corps, c'est comme un dessin sur une feuille de papier."
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