Hi Dave,
Dave Miner wrote:
> jan damborsky wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> when testing latest AI images, I have realized
>> that we currently don't have any naming services
>> functional in AI image.
>>
>> As far as user perspective is concerned, at least
>> one visible impact is that AI installer can't
>> successfully process AI manifest, if the
>> address of IPS repository is not passed in
>> the form of raw IP.
>>
>> Based on this, it seems that we should have
>> some naming service running in AI image. I was
>> thinking about DNS, but not sure if this is
>> the approach we want to follow.
>>
>> Please let me know what you think.
>> Comments and suggestions are highly appreciated.
>>
>
> You should have mdns, nsswitch.conf just needs to be set to use it.
> I'd expect that DNS should be automatically configured during boot if
> a server list is provided by DHCP.
It seems we have DNS enabled, but it is in 'offline' state, because
/etc/resolv.conf is not being populated even if DHCP server provides
information about DNS servers ('dhcpinfo DNSserv' returns correct values).
Looking at the code, /lib/svc/method/net-svc populates /etc/resolv.conf
in case 'nwam' is not enabled.
I have realized that 'nwam' instance of svc:/network/physical service
currently
takes care of network configuration in AI, 'default' is disabled.
I think that we could switch to 'default' instead of 'nwam', since
we won't be taking advantage of nwam features and it seems 'default'
should take care of configuring DNS.
Do you think it might be the good approach to follow ?
Thank you,
Jan
