Re: domain name
On Sat, 01 Sep 2012, Bob Proulx wrote:
> I have no idea why that is there. I don't know what nook that
> configures. I would let it lie dormant. It might be some legacy
> xerox or token ring network interface for all I know.
Not really. And the kernel does require DNS capabilities, but it uses
userspace helpers to do it. NFS, CIFS, CEPH, AFS... all [can] use DNS.
> If *I* were writing it I wouldn't store this information in the kernel
> at all. The kernel doesn't need it. I would store it in a file on
It used to need it in the past at the very least, it is not there just for
the heck of it. I am not sure how useful it is right now, though.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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