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Re: PPP: Negotiate both primary and secondary/alternative DNS resolvers
- From: daniel dot neri at sigicom dot com (Daniel Néri)
- To: ecos-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:42:25 +0200
- Subject: Re: PPP: Negotiate both primary and secondary/alternative DNS resolvers
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Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> writes:
> Since the DNS resolver only supports one DNS server, what is this good
> for?
I'm using another resolver, which supports multiple server addresses.
The secondary address is provided by cyg_ppp_get_neg_addrs, in the
"alt_dns" field of the cyg_ppp_neg_addrs_t struct. With the current
sources, that field never gets a value that's of any use.
Regards,
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Daniel Néri <daniel.neri@sigicom.com>
Sigicom AB, Stockholm, Sweden