-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Damien Chaumette wrote:
> Your network has to be rightly configured so that your IP will be resolved > and you'll get back a FQHN. Yes, this is the job of drakconnect (to ensure that whatever the user chooses, they have working name resolution etc). > We don't let user choose hostname randomly in DHCP mode. Damien, can you please discuss with us the exact design spec for drakconnect, so that the issue is fixed for 10.0? <rant> At present, drakconnect makes it excessively easy to stuff up a network configuration. If the user uses no advanced buttons, they end up with: 1)Hostname = localhost (I have already mentioned why this is idiotic, you haven't answered why you think it is a good idea for all the daemons to be using "localhost" as their hostname, why samba, postfix and cups should be broken out-the-box due to this) 2)tmdns advertising a hostname which the rest of the system doesn't know about 3)In networks with DDNS, the wrong hostname is used, and the DHCP server won't setup DNS entries for the machine. In short, the current handling of drakconnect is useless for any business network (I can't judge it on DSL etc). Please, stop breaking other packages. Maybe in future I will make the default netbios name "drakconnectsux" so at least Windows machines can connect to a Mandrake machine via samba out-the-box. It's easier and more maintainable than fixing the same issue the way Till fixed CUPS. </rant> Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/dB30rJK6UGDSBKcRAun5AJ9/794hMUiQWiuy7TwVWouGnvpTQwCghKFW mScmxPSCbtVkwxidQxdT/6c= =GcDz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. *****************************************************************
