Re: base-files: please ship /etc/networks and include "link-local 169.254.0.0" to it
Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> writes:
> On Nov 19, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
>> > I'd like to receive comments about:
>> > - shipping /etc/networks in netbase
>> > - adding 169.254.0.0 to it
>> The second makes sense to me.
> I am not sure. For a start, I would need to add *all* /24 in the
> link-local networks space since /etc/networks comes from a pre-CIDR
> world.
Yeah, that is annoying.
> And I am not sure about which modern software still uses the file.
I think it's really mostly used for display purposes now, although it may
still be used to get a default netmask.
>> Why would moving it to base-files make
>> sense, though?
> We are discussing adding it to netbase, indeed.
Oh, right. I see now; I misread the original message.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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