qemu dhcp server hack

Carl Karsten carl at personnelware.com
Fri Jun 1 21:56:57 UTC 2007


David W. Hankins wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 12:31:22AM -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
>> This is a bit OT, but hopefully not to far off...
> 
> Possibly more topical for dhcp-hackers ("generic not-ISC dhcp
> development discussion").  Don't sweat it.
> 
> But this bit is topical:
> 
>> I wanted to add support for host-name (which is what feeds 'search=' in 
>> /etc/resolve.conf, right?), but I missed something, cuz it doesn't work:
> 
> You mean domain-name.  It's not "supposed" to feed 'search' in
> resolv.conf.  That's kind of something ISC DHCP went and did,
> without protocol approval, and it has odd effects in other DHCP
> client implementations.
> 
> There's an honest-to-god domain search option, we implemented it
> in 3.1.0 (so it's in 4.0.0 too).  That obviously isn't well deployed
> in clients yet.
> 
>> assuming my parameter passing is OK, is there something about the way the dhcp
>> offer is being constructed I need to know?
> 
> In theory that's correct DHCP formatting.  If it were me, I'd check
> bounds, but the other code snippet you quoted doesn't seem to care.
> 

Thanks.

Turns out my assumption was wrong - whoops.  (I was storing the domainname on 
top of the hostname.)

Carl K


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