From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/8456 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Szabolcs Nagy Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Would love to see reconsideration for domain and search DNS keywords Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 19:56:29 +0200 Message-ID: <20150904175628.GH28959@port70.net> References: Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441389409 27056 80.91.229.3 (4 Sep 2015 17:56:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 17:56:49 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-8468-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Fri Sep 04 19:56:45 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXvEC-0008P1-4s for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 19:56:44 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 30686 invoked by uid 550); 4 Sep 2015 17:56:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 30668 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2015 17:56:41 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: musl@lists.openwall.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:8456 Archived-At: * Andy Shinn [2015-09-04 12:11:36 -0500]: > I'm writing the wonderful musl project today to open discussion about the > future possibility of DNS search and domain keyword support. We've been > using musl libc (by way of Alpine Linux) for new development of > applications as containers that discover each other through DNS and other > software defined networking. > > In particular, we are starting to use applications like SkyDNS, Consul, and > Kubernetes, all of which rely on local name resolution in some way using > search paths. Many users of the Alpine Linux container image have also > expressed their desire for this feature at > https://github.com/gliderlabs/docker-alpine/issues/8. > > On the functional differences between glibc page, the domain and search > keyword "Support may be added in the future if there is demand". So please > consider this request an addition to whatever demand for the feature > already exists. > i think it was discussed previously http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2014/04/30/7 http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2014/05/04/20 http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2014/06/01/2 as you can see from the last thread not everybody wants the search domains. > Thank you for your time and great work on the musl libc project! > > -Andy