From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HaXZ9-00020K-PU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 13:36:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l38DYn04026509; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 13:34:49 GMT Received: from mail.marples.name (rsm.demon.co.uk [80.177.111.50]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l38DVOrU020612 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 13:31:24 GMT Received: from uberlaptop.marples.name (uberlaptop.marples.name [IPv6:fee1::f20b:aaff:fe00:3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.marples.name (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76FBC190051 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:31:24 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:31:22 +0100 From: Roy Marples To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] resolvconf Message-ID: <20070408143122.21c73805@uberlaptop.marples.name> In-Reply-To: <4616B42E.5040708@gentoo.org> References: <20070405230345.GA22227@paradox.datanode.net> <20070406205731.064b03a7@uberlaptop.marples.name> <4616B42E.5040708@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7c1d0e68-71c3-4a04-880c-b11b1d31c432 X-Archives-Hash: 1223a68c5d39e9dc0f91561858593811 On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:57:18 -0700 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Roy Marples wrote: > > A new version of resolvconf-gentoo is about to be released which > > also works with dash and busybox. Also, the next resolvconf script > > for dnsmasq will (also due out soon) supports updating dnsmasq via > > dbus which means the local resolver is never down which is > > important. > > Is there any documentation around on what people need to do to change > to resolvconf and why they would want to do so? Aside from the man page, no not really. And our documentation says just to install it and see the manage. As to what it does, it manages DNS information setup for all your interfaces in a sensible manner and works with local resolvers such as dnsmasq, bind and djbdns for cases where the libc resolver isn't man enough for the job. A good example of this is a wired and wireless connections to different subnets and running a VPN connection. Using resolvconf and a local resolver we can send requests to the VPN domain only to the VPN name servers, something which libc resolver cannot do. Thanks roy -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list