Re: For review: updates to add IPv6 dynamic dns support

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 11:32 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> On 09/25/2012 02:49 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 13:43 +0200, Jiri Popelka wrote:
> >> On 09/24/2012 02:45 PM, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> >>> 1. Modified nm-dhcp-manager.c and nm-dhcp-dhclient.c to put the
> >>> HOSTNAME or DHCP_HOSTNAME on the dhclient "-6" command line using the
> >>> "-F" parameter.  This tells dhclient to send the name as a fqdn.fqdn
> >>> to the dhcp server.
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> the -F as well as -B,-H,-I,-R,-V options are Fedora/RHEL specific.
> >> There are no such options in upstream dhclient.
> >> You probably need to put "send fqdn.fqdn <value>" to NM generated
> >> dhclient.conf
> > Yeah, I forgot about that.  Which is probably why we didn't use -F and
> > -H originally for IPv4 too.  I recall those patches were submitted
> > upstream years ago but upstream didn't like them.
> >
> Thanks ... this is why I put this up for review.  Back to work.

I think most of the config merging stuff in the dhclient code can work
as-is for IPv6 too.

Dan