Request for review: icmpdn
Andreas Thienemann
andreas at bawue.net
Thu Jul 7 11:14:42 UTC 2005
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Oliver Falk wrote:
> > %description
> > Since the Linux kernel does not support the ICMP host name facilities as
> > described in RFC 1788, I wrote a simple implementation in user-space.
> > It comprises three parts:
> >
> > * icmpdnd - The ICMP Domain Name daemon, which listens to ICMP
> > domain name requests and replies to them.
> >
> > * idnlookup - A user utility to query a host for its host name over
> > ICMP. Like ping and all other utilities that use ICMP, it needs to
> > be installed SUID root.
> >
> > * libnss_icmp.so.2 - A glibc NSS module, which uses idnlookup to
May I suggest trimming the %description field a bit?
Maybe something like:
%description
icmpdn is a RFC1788 ICMP Domain Name Messages implementation for linux.
It contains the icmp domain name daemon, icmpdnd, which listens to ICMP
domain name requests and answers them.
bye,
andreas
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