Handling of /etc/hosts is highly site- and admin- specific in
many more complex cases, and it's exceedingly hard and error-
prone for NetworkManager to handle all those cases. So remove
this functionality entirely. That's not a big loss, as it
turns out there's a much more elegant solution.
The only requirement is that the machine's hostname map back
to an IP address owned by the machine. That requirement can
be satisifed by nss-myhostname or even possibly the distro's
installer. If the user does not want nss-myhostname then it
can be uninstalled. Distros should use a "recommends" feature
in their packaging system so that the NetworkManager package
does *not* have a hard requirement on nss-myhostname. Thus
everyone is happy; things Just Work when nss-myhostname is
installed, but more advanced users can uninstall it and
customize /etc/hosts as they wish.
Another alternative is a dispatcher script that listents for
the 'hostname' event, and updates /etc/hosts according to the
administrator's preference.
When split DNS is used for a local caching nameserver, make sure
that reverse DNS queries for hosts within the VPN tunnel are directed
to the VPN's nameservers, not to the public upstream nameservers.
RFC6101 adds the DNS Search List option to router advertisements. This
allows stateless configuration of suffixes to try when doing DNS lookups.
Make sure we catch these when provided by the kernel and reconfigure
things appropriately.
NOTE: this commit depends on a kernel patch:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=129216173321352&w=2
RFC5006/RFC6106 specifies fairly clearly how to handle multiple RDDNS options.
Unfortunately the previous code didn't deal with this and hence would
misbehave in all but the simplest setups. The new code should be fully
compliant with the following exceptions:
- Router lifetime not respected
- No "sufficient number" management.
- DHCPv6 servers might not be prioritised over RDDNS ones.
Filter registered agents for each secrets request to ensure that the
connection for which secrets are requested is visible to that agent,
and add that agent to the queue. Ask each agent in the queue until
one returns usable secrets. Ensure that if new agents register
or existing agents quit during the secrets request, that the queue
is updated accordingly, and ensure that an agent that's already
been asked for secrets, unregisters, and re-registers before the
secrets request is comple, isn't asked for secrets twice.
Instead of a bizare mechanism of signals back to the manager
object that used to be required because of the user/system settings
split, let each place that needs secrets request those secrets
itself. This flattens the secrets request process a ton and
the code flow significantly.
Previously the get secrets flow was something like this:
nm_act_request_get_secrets ()
nm_secrets_provider_interface_get_secrets ()
emits manager-get-secrets signal
provider_get_secerts ()
system_get_secrets ()
system_get_secrets_idle_cb ()
nm_sysconfig_connection_get_secrets ()
system_get_secrets_reply_cb ()
nm_secrets_provider_interface_get_secrets_result ()
signal failure or success
now instead we do something like this:
nm_agent_manager_get_secrets ()
nm_agent_manager_get_secrets ()
request_start_secrets ()
nm_sysconfig_connection_get_secrets ()
return failure or success to callback
We only want to prevent regression to > READY after READY has
been reached, since the interface state will track the supplicant
connection state which legitimately jumps around.
