Request for review: icmpdn

Fredrik Tolf fredrik at dolda2000.com
Thu Jul 7 11:42:17 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 13:14 +0200, 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?

Now that you mention it, I do agree that it should be trimmed. That
description was copied directly from the project homepage, and thus is a
bit verbose. I don't really agree with your sample formulation, though,
but I'll think about one and hopefully repost.

Thanks!
Fredrik Tolf





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