Jason McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 12:21:52PM +0000, Klemens Nanni wrote: > > While designed to populate resolv.conf(5), there is nothing resolvd(8) > > specific about the route message route(8) sends. > > > > At least unwind(8) consumes and acts upon it; there might as well be > > other programs in ports that do such things, so describe it generically > > while going into required detail for our selected base daemons. > > > > OK? > > > > NB: I'll fix unwind.conf(5) wrt. `route nameserver' separately. > > > > hi. > > i think it sounds weird to talk about sending things without saying > where they're going. maybe there is a better word than send? maybe this > command is just recording, or specifying, or ...? i don;t have a good > grasp of the process here.
"to the route socket" Maybe rather than 'send', does it explain things better to say 'broadcast', > > Index: route.8 > > =================================================================== > > RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/route/route.8,v > > retrieving revision 1.101 > > diff -u -p -r1.101 route.8 > > --- route.8 22 Oct 2021 18:31:12 -0000 1.101 > > +++ route.8 26 Oct 2021 12:18:31 -0000 > > @@ -169,11 +169,16 @@ only changes in that routing table will > > .Ar interface > > .Op Ar address ... > > .Xc > > -Send a list of up to five nameserver address proposals to > > -.Xr resolvd 8 . > > +Send a list of up to five nameserver address proposals. > > +.Pp > > +.Xr unwind 8 > > +will learn them and act according to > > +.Xr unwind.conf 5 . > > +.Pp > > .Xr resolvd 8 > > will replace all existing nameservers for the given interface in > > .Xr resolv.conf 5 . > > +.Pp > > If no > > .Ar address > > argument is given, a request to remove the nameservers previously entered > > for > > >
