On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 04:06:20PM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 08:57:40AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Jason McIntyre <j...@kerhand.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 12:21:52PM +0000, Klemens Nanni wrote: > > > > While designed to populate resolv.conf(5), there is nothing resolvd(8) > > > > specific about the route message route(8) sends. > > > > > > > > At least unwind(8) consumes and acts upon it; there might as well be > > > > other programs in ports that do such things, so describe it generically > > > > while going into required detail for our selected base daemons. > > > > > > > > OK? > > > > > > > > NB: I'll fix unwind.conf(5) wrt. `route nameserver' separately. > > > > > > > > > > hi. > > > > > > i think it sounds weird to talk about sending things without saying > > > where they're going. maybe there is a better word than send? maybe this > > > command is just recording, or specifying, or ...? i don;t have a good > > > grasp of the process here. > > > > "to the route socket" > > > > Maybe rather than 'send', does it explain things better to say 'broadcast', > > > > i think either saying to the route socket or broadcast are clear and > would read better.
The latter is great, thanks. OK? Index: route.8 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/route/route.8,v retrieving revision 1.101 diff -u -p -r1.101 route.8 --- route.8 22 Oct 2021 18:31:12 -0000 1.101 +++ route.8 26 Oct 2021 15:30:04 -0000 @@ -169,11 +169,16 @@ only changes in that routing table will .Ar interface .Op Ar address ... .Xc -Send a list of up to five nameserver address proposals to -.Xr resolvd 8 . +Broadcast a list of up to five nameserver address proposals. +.Pp +.Xr unwind 8 +will learn them and act according to +.Xr unwind.conf 5 . +.Pp .Xr resolvd 8 will replace all existing nameservers for the given interface in .Xr resolv.conf 5 . +.Pp If no .Ar address argument is given, a request to remove the nameservers previously entered for
