On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 10:07:41PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote: > > I am still somewhat confused. Is ppp-udeb meant to completely replace > > netcfg? > > Let's reward your persistence with some information.
Thanks for the great explanation, Frans! > > Shouldn't it ask for netcfg/get_domain then? > > I'm not sure that it's useful if I look at the way the udeb currently works. > The most important use of the domain name is for the "search" option in > /etc/resolv.conf. IMHO, the setting in /etc/resolv.conf is mostly for convenience. It saves me some typing, that's all. In contrast, the setting in /etc/hosts is more important since it is needed to make "hostname -d" and "hostname -f" work. > I expect that ppp-udeb assumes it is the task of dhcp to correctly update > /etc/resolv.conf and thus that dhcp should provide the correct domain name. > Thus asking for it would be redundant. While having ppp-client and dhcp-server on the same host is a pretty common setup (after all, most consumer dsl-routers offer this option), I completely fail to imagine the use-case of the ppp-client/dhcp-client combination. > Note also that for normal netcfg, D-I basically works the same way when dhcp > is used: if the domain name is entered manually, it is ignored. See for > example #328646. But isn't this considered to be a bug? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
