-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thierry Vignaud wrote: > poulpy (damien chaumette) is on hollydays and won't be online until > quite some time. > > i'll try to resume maintainership upon drakconnect for some time > despite not being a network guru. (my goal being to release some > update regarding drakxtools because of drakconnect & drakfont) > > so if you have enough information (error trace when running from a > terminale, wrong config files or better diff of wrong & good config > files, and the like...), please report/fill bug reports with that. > > i'll be more able to fix bug in standalone tool rather than in > installer, so please focus on standalone drakconnect.
First request: Please make the most visible name the user enters in drakconnect the real hostname (ie HOSTNAME in /etc/sysconfig/network). 95% of users have no use for the 'zeroconf hostname', since 95% of networks don't use zeroconf but DHCP and DNS, sometimes in tandem (DDNS)[1] Also, by default, send the host part of FQDN in the DHCP request by default (this makes DDNS work correctly mostly). Don't set a hostname in tmdns.conf by default, as it defaults to `hostname`, which is the correct thing to do in > 99.99% of common network configurations. The "advanced" configuration options should allow you to not use the hostname returned by the DHCP server (even in this case, tmdns config can be left default, as you still want to resolve `hostname`). Of course, there is no design documentation on the current setup, so making these changes could break some functionality, but I would guess it might affect <5 of users (unless there is some big problem which affects DSL users). Regards, Buchan [1] Default Active Directory Setup sets up DDNS, additionally it is reccomended practise in Windows NT4 domains IIRC, and trivial to do. Many Unix/Linux-based networks do this too (although it is a bit more work to do with bind9+dhcp3), and even if they don't, they usually have working DNS for all DHCP-assigned IPs. - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/fZebrJK6UGDSBKcRAqcmAJ4g+JuyiQnOuB0s4kaqszz2vvWyHwCeMD2O X3hS2WxEt4znV9xZ+UXfw3s= =kXdV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. *****************************************************************
