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Date:      Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:43:27 +0200
From:      Ulrich Spoerlein <spoerlein@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        brooks@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: New dhclient broke multiple domains in domain-name
Message-ID:  <20050617144327.GA943@galgenberg.net>
In-Reply-To: <200506161312.51857.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200506161312.51857.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, 16.06.2005 at 13:12:51 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> A feature of both the old and new dhclient(8) is that it would take whate=
ver=20
> was in the domain-name option returned by the DHCP server and stick it in=
 the=20
> 'search' line in /etc/resolv.conf.  Thus, if you wanted to have DNS searc=
h=20
> multiple domains, you could just pass a space separated list of domains t=
o=20
> search in domain-name and it would just work.  I've made use of this=20
> "feature" in several different environments in the past including my curr=
ent=20
> test lab.  It's even used in the example dhclient.conf in dhclient.conf(5=
):
>=20
>        interface "ep0" {
>            send host-name "andare.fugue.com";
>            send dhcp-client-identifier 1:0:a0:24:ab:fb:9c;
>            send dhcp-lease-time 3600;
>            supersede domain-name "fugue.com rc.vix.com home.vix.com";
>            prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
>            ...
>        }

Interesting.

I'm overwriting make_resolv_conf() in /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks to
achieve the same result on 5-STABLE. If dhclient-enter-hooks is still
supported, you could work around the issue.

Ulrich Sp=F6rlein
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Ok, which part of "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."
didn't you understand?

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