On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Kenneth R Westerback <kwesterb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
"As far as I know" for me doesn't extend very far at all. I can cite a few corporate environments where a list of search domains are given out because in typical disorganized hellhole fashion they want clients to resolve hosts in their several disjointed domains that have been cobbled together over the decades of poorly done mergers and acquisitions and technology upgrades. So I've seen it frequently in this regard. -- Darren Spruell phatbuck...@gmail.com
