Re: New dhclient broke multiple domains in domain-name

From: Ulrich Spoerlein <spoerlein_at_informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:43:27 +0200
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 whatever 
> was in the domain-name option returned by the DHCP server and stick it in the 
> 'search' line in /etc/resolv.conf.  Thus, if you wanted to have DNS search 
> multiple domains, you could just pass a space separated list of domains to 
> search in domain-name and it would just work.  I've made use of this 
> "feature" in several different environments in the past including my current 
> test lab.  It's even used in the example dhclient.conf in dhclient.conf(5):
> 
>        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 Spörlein
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