Messages in this thread | | | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: [BK] disconnected operation | Date | Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:20:23 +0100 |
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On 2004-12-26, at 18:19, Larry McVoy wrote: > For James, could you do a little debugging please? Run the following > when you are plugged in and it works and also when it doesn't: > > bk getuser > bk getuser -r > bk gethost > bk gethost -r > bk dotbk > > We'll track it down and fix it if it is a problem on our end. This > stuff > is supposed to work, we certainly haven't intentionally caused a > problem.
Larry, that's futile, please trust me, you really can't fix this conveniently and properly, without changing the principles of operation. nscd, mDNSresponder, dhclient, glibc, NDIS, netinfo, some NAT, proxy, OpenDirectory, and so on, the whole gang, gosh even /etc/hostname will *always* get you sometime if you intend to accommodate mobile users. Eee... did I say mobile users, Well let's use the proper buzz-word. *Roaming* users. Take it as a given: The nice shiny easy days of BSD4-Net release are long past and gone. A hostname simply isn't a fixed attribute of a host anymore. Setting a host name has nowadays more the character of a prayer or christmas wish to Santa, then any setup measure.
I really recommend that you give him a cookie and check if he still didn't eat it next time you meet him. (So don't give him a crispy well smelling one...) Or even better please do yourself the favor and go straight the whole way down to SASL, TSL and so on... There where already people around there with similar problems before. (www.beepcore.org comes in to mind for something quite modern and not directly Java/XML/SOAP/bla bla bloated...)
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