dhcpcd-discuss

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 02:20:30PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> It's not currently that granular.
> See a recent discussion on this here:
> https://roy.marples.name/archives/dhcpcd-discuss/0001932.html
Thanks for the pointer.

> I also find it rather odd that you even need to run dhcpcd for DNS as the
> slaacd man page states it supports RFC 8106 which is all about DNS in the RA
> and nothing else.
While slaacd parses RDNSS and DNSSL, it does not touch /etc/resolv.conf to avoid
inteference with dhclient as of now.

> Is there a compelling reason why you need to run both? Either dhcpcd or
> slaacd should be fine.
Because slaacd comes with base, is enabled by default and runs with privilege
separation.

dhcpcd running as root should only do what's necessary.