netdev - Re: [RFC][PATCH] Export DNSSL RA option to userspace

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <1292462307.31873.30.camel@dcbw.foobar.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:18:24 -0600
From:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
To:	Pierre Ossman <pierre-list@...man.eu>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	"Pekka Savola (ipv6)" <pekkas@...core.fi>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Export DNSSL RA option to userspace

On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 14:43 +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:10:15 +0000
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.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


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html