Re: NetworkManager on Debian

[Hristo Hristov <xpertbg gmail com> (by way of Hristo Hristov <xpertbg gmail com>)]

On Thu, 01 May 2008 10:21:51 -0400
Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:

> > 3) I'm trying to make NM work with resolvconf. I want to pass DNS configurations 
> > received from DHCP to the dispatcher and then to the dispatcher script. I have no 
> > knowledge of dbus, so I made an ugly patch to pass the first nameserver configuration.
> > Could you tell me what should be the correct way of passing the nameservers 
> > to the dispatcher?
> 
> You shouldn't be using the dispatcher for this or any other core
> functionality of NM.  Instead, what information does resolvconf need,
> and how do you call it?  Can we detect when the user wishes to run with
> resolvconf enabled?  I view resolvconf as just one more method to
> handle /etc/resolv.conf, in addition to the (broken) caching-nameserver
> code and the direct resolv.conf manipulation.  I'd rather teach NM about
> resolvconf properly if we can.

I forgot to write you what information does resolvconf need. It needs 
the values of the domain search sortlist and nameserver configuration 
options for /etc/resolv.conf and the interface name.

BR,
Hristo