Hi Ted:

Actually the first option does work, but causes issues with
SystemImager/SystemConfigurator as I reported here:

http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/ticket/176

I wonder if we should patch SystemImager/SystemConfigurator
accordingly...

Cheers,

Bernard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Powell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf 
> Of Ted Powell
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 16:42
> To: Bernard Li
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Oscar-devel] ISC DHCP Server
> 
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 12:32:59PM -0700, Bernard Li wrote:
> > Ted:
> > 
> > Since you seem to be quite knowledgeable with DHCP Server 
> and the likes,
> > do you know what is the "correct" way of providing multiple search
> > domains via DHCP?  Is that even supported?
> > 
> > What I mean is for /etc/resolv.conf to be like:
> > 
> > search openclustergroup.org ocg.org
> 
> The data type for option domain-name is simply: text
> I would therefore hope that
> 
>     option domain-name "openclustergroup.org ocg.org"
> 
> in /etc/dhcpd.conf would result in
> 
>     search openclustergroup.org ocg.org
> 
> in /etc/resolv.conf, as long as the DHCP client just plugs in 
> the option
> value without trying to parse it.
> 
> [Later]
> 
> My main DHCP reference, The DHCP Handbook, by Droms and 
> Lemon, says this
> about the domain-name option:
> 
>     The domain name option specifies only a single domain for name
>     resolution. At the time of this writing [7+ years ago --ted], the
>     DHC working group was developing a new option that 
> specifies a list
>     of domain names used in name resolution.
> 
> A little digging turned up RFC 3397, which specifies such an option,
> as number 119, domain search.
> 
> The current version of ISC DHCP is 3.0.4, released May 5 of this year.
> (Fedora Core 5 uses 3.0.3.) I downloaded it, located the source file
> containing the option definitions, and found that the name of option
> 119 there is "unknown-119".
> 
> 
> I suggest that you try the kludge I suggested first. It might work. It
> might not break on the next ISC DHCP release.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ted Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   http://psg.com/~ted/
> "If you don't look, you don't know."
>     Dr. Sam Ting, Nobel laureate experimental physicist.
> 


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