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Re: RFC 5006 status

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:56:05 +0100, Benoit Boissinot <bboissin@gmail.com>

wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Philip Homburg

> <pch-v6ops@u-1.phicoh.com> wrote:

>> From an implementors point of view, the main thing I find annoying about

>> RFC-5006 is that information about DNS servers ends up in the kernel

>> instead of in user land where I need it. And I don't want the kernel to

>> store and forward all kinds of user land data. Of course, it is always

>> possible to send an extra router solicitation ICMP from user land...



There is no need to store it. It just needs to be forwarded. (Arguably

though, the whole auto-configuration should be entirely done in user space

anyway.)



> As for as I know, rdnssd and radns both process the RA information in

> userspace. There's no handling of DNS in the kernel.



As one of the co-author of rdnssd, I can assure you that this is incorrect.

rdnssd gets the RDNSS information from the Linux kernel via NetLink out of

the kernel SLAAC code.



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