From: Jason McIntyre <jmc@kerhand.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Diff: Minor Improvement to Sentence
To: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2024 18:18:49 +0100

On Thu, Aug 08, 2024 at 11:10:47AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Jason McIntyre <jmc@kerhand.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > yes, i get that. this way, you are pushing first that this is only for
> > hosts with condition. for those hosts it does operation.
> 
> hosts?
> 
> these daemons only act upon INTERFACES with that condition.
> 
> if no interfaces have the condition, the daemon does nothing, but that's
> reductionist.
> 
> > but i don;t know why you;d want to emphasize it that way round. the
> > whole nuts of it is that it's a way for clients to autoconfigure their
> > ip stuff. isn;t that the first thing you need to know? then how you go
> > about it, or for which devices it might be relevant.
> 
> you are throwing around "hosts", "client" and confusing things a lot.
> 

yes, sorry, i wasn;t trying to be exact, just general. my wording was
unfortunate i guess.

> It works like this:
> 
>     for (all interfaces) {
>     	try the discovery protocol
> 	if (we learn something) {
> 	    change the interface
> 	   tell resolvd
> 	}
>     }
> 
> Leading to this for both daemons:
> 
>     For all interfaces with the AUTOCONF flag set, the daemon attempts
>     learning using a discovery protocol.
>     If information is found it places an address onto the interface and
>     provides DNS information to resolvd(8)
> 
> I don't see any need for describing the operation backwards.
> 

ok, i can see you are not for turning.

jmc