Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:42:33 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New dhclient broke multiple domains in domain-name Message-ID: <200506171142.33489.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050616185022.GJ21733@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <200506161312.51857.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20050616185022.GJ21733@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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On Thursday 16 June 2005 02:50 pm, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:12:51PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > I'd very much like the old behavior restored if possible, or an > > alternative way to achieve the same result (multiple domains in the > > 'search' part of /etc/resolv.conf). Note that the old domain-name trick > > has worked all the way back to at least 4.1 and maybe even back in the > > 3.x days IIRC. > > I know about the issue and plan to fix it before release, but will not > get to it for another week. This is a really annoying feature because > it's widely supported, but clearly invalid based on reading the DHCP > spec. It's a bug that isc-dhcpd sends domain-name with spaces in it > since it violates the strict send, lenient accept rule. Note that the new dhclient binary is now violating the rule as well since it's not being lenient. :) At the very least, it could just throw out the domain-name and keep the rest of the lease rather than rejecting the entire lease offer. I've worked around it for now though and can wait a week or two to see what you come up with. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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