Re: Need an alternate DNS mechanism

2013-05-08 Thread Gary Oliver
On 05/08/2013 12:52 AM, Patrik Flykt wrote: On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 08:04 -0700, Gary Oliver wrote: 1) Have a way for the dnsproxy in connman to search (as a last-resort) the contents of /etc/hosts, which will be populated with a domain name that will be used to connect by the clients to the devic

Re: Need an alternate DNS mechanism

2013-05-08 Thread Simon McVittie
On 07/05/13 16:04, Gary Oliver wrote: > 2) Write a plugin that will always respond with the AP address for > 'localhost' when a DNS request is made. That sounds wrong... 'localhost' should always resolve to point back to the machine making the request (127.0.0.1 and/or ::1), not to a distinct mach

Re: Need an alternate DNS mechanism

2013-05-08 Thread Patrik Flykt
On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 08:04 -0700, Gary Oliver wrote: > 1) Have a way for the dnsproxy in connman to search (as a > last-resort) > the contents of /etc/hosts, which will be populated with a domain > name > that will be used to connect by the clients to the device. If the use case really is an "i

Re: Need an alternate DNS mechanism

2013-05-08 Thread Jukka Rissanen
Hi Gary, On 07.05.2013 18:04, Gary Oliver wrote: I have a need for a different DNS mechanism than is currently provided by connman. I'm using 1.13 which I've added to the v2012.12 Angstrom distribution I'm using for my application (1.4 was missing a few features I needed.) The device running c

Need an alternate DNS mechanism

2013-05-07 Thread Gary Oliver
I have a need for a different DNS mechanism than is currently provided by connman. I'm using 1.13 which I've added to the v2012.12 Angstrom distribution I'm using for my application (1.4 was missing a few features I needed.) The device running connman will spend *most* of it's time as an isol