Re: For review: updates to add IPv6 dynamic dns support

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 13:16 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 11:32 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> > On 09/25/2012 02:49 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 13:43 +0200, Jiri Popelka wrote:
> > >> On 09/24/2012 02:45 PM, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> > >>> 1. Modified nm-dhcp-manager.c and nm-dhcp-dhclient.c to put the
> > >>> HOSTNAME or DHCP_HOSTNAME on the dhclient "-6" command line using the
> > >>> "-F" parameter.  This tells dhclient to send the name as a fqdn.fqdn
> > >>> to the dhcp server.
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> the -F as well as -B,-H,-I,-R,-V options are Fedora/RHEL specific.
> > >> There are no such options in upstream dhclient.
> > >> You probably need to put "send fqdn.fqdn <value>" to NM generated
> > >> dhclient.conf
> > > Yeah, I forgot about that.  Which is probably why we didn't use -F and
> > > -H originally for IPv4 too.  I recall those patches were submitted
> > > upstream years ago but upstream didn't like them.
> > >
> > Thanks ... this is why I put this up for review.  Back to work.
> 
> I think most of the config merging stuff in the dhclient code can work
> as-is for IPv6 too.

See the notes I've written in "Re: NM bug 684242 and other stuff" for
details on this.

Dan