On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:03:13AM -0700, Darren Spruell wrote: > Wanted to verify my understanding that the included dhcpd(8) in base > does not currently support the domain-search option: > > """ > option domain-search domain-list; The domain-search option specifies a > 'search list' of Domain Names to be used by the client to locate > not-fully-qualified domain names. The difference between this option > and historic use of the domain-name option for the same ends is that > this option is encoded in RFC1035 compressed labels on the wire. For > example: > > option domain-search "example.com", "sales.example.com", > "eng.example.com"; > """ > > dhcpd.conf(5) and dhcp-options(5) don't mention the option.
option 119 (domain search, specified in rfc 3397) is not supported in the base version of dhcpd. One *could* provide it with the syntax option-119 nn:nn:nn:nn:nn... where you provide the appropriate hex digits to specify the contents of the option. Not a nice solution. :-) > > I can currently override the search domains on clients, and it seems > like it might be supported in isc-dhcp-server package. Anything likely > to make it into base? Simply a matter of patch not having been > submitted, or anything deeper than that? Nothing deeper than that, as far as I know. Is option 119 in wide use as far as you know? .... Ken
