Re: should FreeBSD-dhclient depend on FreeBSD-resolvconf?

On 2025-10-16 23:06, Lexi Winter wrote:
> Chris wrote in <1dab51ef73837d98d5b5c36ef1e39118@bsdforge.com>:
>> On 2025-10-15 05:16, Lexi Winter wrote:
>> > so if dhclient use in jails is widespread, we should probably
>> > add it to minimal-jail.
>> IMHO isn't the HOST responsible for routing? Doesn't that make dhclient
>> and friends somewhat unusual (not average jail(8) setup?).
> 
> no, in VNET jails the jail does routing itself, including IP address
> assignment.  while i personally prefer to do this statically, i believe
> it's fairly common to use DHCP (for IPv4) or SLAAC (for IPv6) to handle
> this automatically, especially in mass-hosting setups.
> 
> since dhclient is fairly small (150kB) and DHCP is something people
> typically expect to "just work", i am leaning on the side of putting
> this into minimal-jail unless anyone has a strong objection.
No objection here. Just didn't seem like a very common jail need from
my perspective. But now that you mention it. I can easily see it's value.

Thanks, Lexi.

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