[syslinux] [Etherboot-developers] gPxe functionality in pxelinux

[Michael Brown]

On Thursday 27 November 2008 22:07:50 Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Marty and Michael: do you have any preferences on this issue?  Perhaps
> we really do want to keep it minimal like hpa suggests to limit bloat?
>  There is no standard here anyway.
>
> A "qualifying DNS" resolver could be implemented as an optional gPXE
> resolver.  Stripped down builds would only compile in the existing
> "DNS" resolver, whereas full-featured builds would additionally
> compile in the "qualifying DNS" resolver.  The "qualifying DNS"
> resolver appends the local domain as appropriate and delegates to the
> existing "DNS" resolver (as a child resolver like the mux resolver
> code in core/resolv.c).

I haven't looked at the patch, but I will be happy with something that 
works "as expected", even if that doesn't match the official spec.  It needs 
to be small enough to be compiled in unconditionally as part of DNS; I don't 
really want this to be a separate feature.

Michael