[Bug 98618] Re: Set domain and search entries correctly

[Andrew Pollock]

ObRelevance: I'm the Debian dhcp3 maintainer, and I've been extensively
testing domain-search support in DHCP 3.1.x in Debian

The domain-search attribute is a new type, not a string, which is
encoded differently on the wire.

Adding

  option dns-domain-search-list code 119 = string;

to dhcpd.conf and/or dhclient.conf will probably work fine if both the
client and the server are the same pre-3.1.x version, but if the server
is 3.1.x or some other server that supports the domain-search option
correctly, it'll be sending it as the new domain list type, which will
most probably get mangled by the client if understood at all.

I do not recommend hacking such functionality into pre-3.1.x versions of
DHCP. I also do not consider the functionality to be production-ready
yet in 3.1.0 (and 3.1.1 is not looking much better yet either).

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Set domain and search entries correctly
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