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authorLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2023-11-17 20:23:56 +0000
committerLaurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com>2023-11-17 20:23:56 +0000
commitd06529686f89074fd4fa574ac6012f8a873e7857 (patch)
treee2fd4e499d8a633feeff288a9d42e904abca8903 /doc
parent9d432bd8a07dd36247339c40fa6bf2719600fdb2 (diff)
downloads6-dns-d06529686f89074fd4fa574ac6012f8a873e7857.tar.xz
Prepare for 2.3.7.0; ignore link-local addresses in /etc/hosts
Signed-off-by: Laurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com>
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-rw-r--r--doc/s6-dns-hosts-compile.html5
-rw-r--r--doc/upgrade.html7
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html
index 1c3e2a2..1b5a7cb 100644
--- a/doc/index.html
+++ b/doc/index.html
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ to the s6 ecosystem.
<li> A POSIX-compliant system with a standard C development environment </li>
<li> GNU make, version 3.81 or later </li>
<li> <a href="//skarnet.org/software/skalibs/">skalibs</a> version
-2.14.0.0 or later. It's a build-time requirement. It's also a run-time
+2.14.0.1 or later. It's a build-time requirement. It's also a run-time
requirement if you link against the shared version of the skalibs library. </li>
</ul>
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ requirement if you link against the shared version of the skalibs library. </li>
<h3> Download </h3>
<ul>
- <li> The current released version of s6-dns is <a href="s6-dns-2.3.6.0.tar.gz">2.3.6.0</a>. </li>
+ <li> The current released version of s6-dns is <a href="s6-dns-2.3.7.0.tar.gz">2.3.7.0</a>. </li>
<li> Alternatively, you can checkout a copy of the
<a href="//git.skarnet.org/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/s6-dns/">s6-dns
git repository</a>:
diff --git a/doc/s6-dns-hosts-compile.html b/doc/s6-dns-hosts-compile.html
index 537c025..2fecdc1 100644
--- a/doc/s6-dns-hosts-compile.html
+++ b/doc/s6-dns-hosts-compile.html
@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ than <tt>/etc/hosts.cdb</tt>, they will not use <tt>/etc/hosts.cdb</tt> and will
perform the compilation step into a temporary file. So, remember to run
s6-dns-hosts-compile after modifying your <tt>/etc/hosts</tt> if you want to keep
the tiny performance improvement. </li>
+ <li> Some tools write link-local addresses in <tt>/etc/hosts</tt> i.e. IPv6 addresses
+followed by a <tt>%</tt> (percent) and a network interface name. This is nonstandard
+and unusable with the DNS protocol, which does not take interface names into
+account. <tt>s6-dns-hosts-compile</tt> will ignore such lines if they appear in
+your hosts file. </li>
</ul>
</body>
diff --git a/doc/upgrade.html b/doc/upgrade.html
index b6c1b67..db26b1c 100644
--- a/doc/upgrade.html
+++ b/doc/upgrade.html
@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@
<h1> What has changed in s6-dns </h1>
+<h2> in 2.3.7.0 </h2>
+
+<ul>
+ <li> <a href="//skarnet.org/software/skalibs/">skalibs</a>
+dependency bumped to 2.14.0.1. </li>
+</ul>
+
<h2> in 2.3.6.0 </h2>
<ul>