Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:53:29 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New dhclient broke multiple domains in domain-name Message-ID: <20050616205329.GG13900@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <17073.58552.862249.81604@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> References: <200506161312.51857.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <42B1D823.5030108@errno.com> <20050616201646.GC13900@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <17073.58552.862249.81604@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>
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--NPukt5Otb9an/u20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 04:44:40PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:16:46 -0700, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien= .net> said: >=20 > > The RFC is shockingly lacking in this area. It's rather odd that they > > send a value for domain, but not for search (in resolv.conf). It's not > > suprising that people ended up abusing this to set search. >=20 > There is a standard (unless it didn't make it out of I-D) for doing > this. The shocking thing is that isc-dhcp(d) has never supported it. > I used to have something like this in my dhcpd.conf: >=20 > #option domain-search-order code 119 =3D string; > # > # This was generated using the following command: > # perl -e 'print "\3lcs\3mit\3edu\0\2ai\xc0\4\xc0\4\2w3\3org\0"' | = hd > # ...and represents the search-list lcs.mit.edu, ai.mit.edu, mit.edu, w3.= org > # in DNS compressed encoding. > # > #option domain-search-order 03:6c:63:73:03:6d:69:74:03:65:64:75:00:02:61:= 69:c0:0 > 4:c0:04:02:77:33:03:6f:72:67:00; >=20 > AFAIK not even Microsoft clients bother to implement this. It doesn't look like this made it out of the working group, at least I can't find anything like it in RFC2132. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --NPukt5Otb9an/u20 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCsebIXY6L6fI4GtQRArDzAJ4vWtn6FFNTuS6vyHzeECCUQO6zVgCgrcuu KDNjng1NxHtEkt8f7rbaNJ0= =438h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NPukt5Otb9an/u20--
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