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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