Re: [Cooker] [ANN] drakconnect (aka networking) maintenance

2003-10-06 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau 
Thierry Vignaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 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 find the default using of tmdns a problem since in DHCP config
we end up with DNS queries spending 4-5 seconds to answer instead
of the traditional feeling of immediate answer (because
/etc/resolv.conf contains 127.0.0.1). If tmdns is not detectable,
please make it an option in expert mode (I think flepied doesn't
want we default on not-using-it :/).

A tooltip on Network Hotplugging would be very convenient also.
I would never have guessed this has to do with link beat
detection.

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Re: [Cooker] [ANN] drakconnect (aka networking) maintenance

2003-10-04 Thread danny 
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, 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.
 

aside from the silly default use of localhost, last time I tried it it 
would not let me set my DNS, which made it completely useless for me.

d.

[Cooker] [ANN] drakconnect (aka networking) maintenance

2003-10-03 Thread Thierry Vignaud 
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.

thanks.

Re: [Cooker] [ANN] drakconnect (aka networking) maintenance

2003-10-03 Thread Buchan Milne 
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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.

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