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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:38:37AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 06:32:09PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 09:51:09AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 06:32:19PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > > > Now, gather DNS information. Invoke an external script (that can be
> > > > distro dependent) to gather the DNS information.
> > > 
> > > Where is that script?  Why a script, this really isn't in a standard
> > > method for all Linux distros?  If not, why not work to do that like the
> > > freedesktop.org people have done for other system configuration items?
> >  
> > I suggested using the Network Manager D-Bus API.  That obviously
> > isn't going to work everywhere, but it seems to cover the same simple
> > cases that this hypervisor-guest interface allows for.
> 
> That's a great start, as I think all of the distros have now pretty much
> standardized on this format, right?
 
I expect it to be available on most current distributions, but not
necessarily enabled by default.  Debian only installs NM if you choose
the 'desktop' task at install time, so text-mode virtal servers
wouldn't have it.  KY may also be concerned about older distributions
that never had NM.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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