Hi, NetworkManager stopped touching /etc/hosts in late 2010 before the NetworkManager 0.8.1 release. The code in nm-policy-hosts.c's only purpose is to remove any of the entries that NetworkManager added long ago.
I think we're at the point where people have already upgraded to NetworkManager 0.8.1 or later and thus this code would be a NOP. The only risk is that some stale /etc/hosts entries will be left if you upgrade from NM 0.8 or lower to anything higher than that. FWIW, Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) ships NM 0.8.0 and SLES11 ships NM 0.7.0, so if users of these distros upgraded to a later NetworkManager they might run into the stale entries issue if we remove this code from NM. But given how old these distros are, it seems unlikely that users will do a direct upgrade to something 4+ years newer... I'd like to remove src/nm-policy-hosts.c from NetworkManager. What does everyone think? Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list