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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