[openbeosnetteam] Re: New stack

Vladimir reikine told us:
> >> > I could really need some way to set up nameservers from the kernel.
> >>
> >> And editing /etc/resolv.conf is not an option?
> >
> >Editing a file from kernel-land? I would not like to do that.
> It should be the same as regular DHCP client, IMHO.

I'm not familiar with regular DHCP client way to do it.
Someone care to give details?

> >I did not think of a DNS protocol module. Instead, the protocol itself
> >should do that. An IPv4 nameserver should be added to the IPv4 module.
> >The DNS module could work, too.
> >Are there any cases where moving the nameserver from its protocol to the
> DNS
> >module is better? I think it is sufficient to add the entries as attributes
> >to the protocol.
> 
> I don't think that it would be suffucient.
> gethostbyname() should not depend on what protocol is used. 

Agreed, you got a point.
So, we're back to name resolver in userland libnet.so, but how to 
dynamicly setup nameserver(s) from kernel land modules?

> Moreover, it shouldn't depend on interface neither (PPP is going 
> to be bound to particular interface, right ?) 

But the nameserver(s) used to achieve a gethostbyname() call can/would be 
differents for each interface(s), no?

> Aren't we going to be POSIX compliant one day, are we ?
> DNS client daemon/module is the only solution I can see.

You seems to have wider knowlegde on DNS support than me.
Not that's so hard ;-)
Anyway, being POSIX compliant implies we should have working get*by*() calls, 
but not how they should works behind the scene...

ISC BIND is best option, obvioulsy, but we need to fix our port currently in 
libnet.so. Making multithread aware, at least.

-Philippe

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