Proposal for 2 properties for Nameservers

[Johnathan Mantey]

I agree with adding this to DBus.

On 9/22/19 6:39 PM, Manojkiran Eda wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
> This mail is regarding , the proposal for adding an additional
> property `StaticNameservers` and also for changing the definition of
> the existing `Nameservers` property.
>  
> - Currently, we have a single DBUS property under Ethernet interface
> named `Nameservers` that captures only StaticNameservers configured on
> the system. It does not populate the information regarding the DNS
> information that is obtained by DHCP server.
>  
> It is also to be noted that the static & dynamic configuration can
> co-exist at the same time(means we might have the DNS set manually by
> user and also by the DHCP Server at the same time).
>  
> As per the discussion with Ratan &
> Wak(https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/#/c/openbmc/phosphor-networkd/+/24224/),we
> had come to a conclusion that we need have two properties in the
> Backend for nameservers (similar to what we have in redfish):
>  
> 1. Nameservers - A read only property which captures the current
> nameservers on the system (which may be static or/and dynamic)
> 2. StaticNameservers - A writeable property which captures only the
> static nameservers.
>  
> Please let me know, if anyone have concerns with this proposal.
>  
> Thanks,
> Manoj
>

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