[Commotion-dev] Submitted DNS and configuration changes

Will Hawkins hawkinsw at opentechinstitute.org
Thu May 10 21:38:17 UTC 2012


I submitted a pull request to the Github repo. Does that work for you?

On 05/10/2012 05:30 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> Hey Will,
> 
> Sounds useful, where can I see these changes? 
> 
> .hc
> 
> On May 10, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Will Hawkins wrote:
> 
>> Hello all!
>>
>> I just wanted to send an update. I finished coding up some changes to
>> the OLSR mesh tether app that make it even more Commotion-compatible.
>>
>> 1. DNS: I added some code that will set a DNS server (Google's public
>> DNS, by default) while the user is connected to the mesh. There is a
>> configuration option (Advanced->Mesh) to change that value. I am going
>> to continue working on DNS "stuff" today and tomorrow. My goal is to get
>> the Android device to learn any name resolutions passed around in OLSR's
>> DNS plug-in.
>>
>> 2. Configuration: I changed some of the configuration screen
>> nomenclature and its semantics. Specifically, I changed the LAN Gateway
>> and LAN Netmask under Advanced->IPv4 options to properly reflect their
>> use for the mesh. I also added code so that the user can simply enter
>> the first quad of an IPv4 address and the client will generate the
>> remaining 3 based on the MAC address (this is how Commotion works for
>> OpenWRT devices). I changed the name of the entire configuration tab to
>> Mesh.
>>
>> I hope that these are up-to-par and that they are helpful. Please let me
>> know if there are any changes that you want made so that they fit code
>> style, etc.
>>
>> Talk to you soon!
>> Will
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