Request for review: icmpdn

Oliver Falk oliver at linux-kernel.at
Thu Jul 7 11:25:44 UTC 2005


On 07/07/2005 01:14 PM, Andreas Thienemann wrote:
> 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.

Should be OK for me. But let Ignacio decide, if he prefers to do it or 
not; As this doesn't hurt.

Best,
  Oliver




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