domain-search garbage in format string

Kingsmill, Geoff geoff.kingsmill at hp.com
Tue Jan 2 11:09:53 UTC 2007


Ted and Simon,
Thanks for the responses. Is this forum sufficient for reporting the
problem? If not then how do I report the problem so that this gets fixed?

Thanks,
Geoff..

On Dec 22, 2006, at 3:14 PM, Kingsmill, Geoff wrote:
> Can anyone provide any insight as to why this is failing?

Presumably 3.1.0a2 implements encoding format 'D' but not decoding  
it.   Should be pretty easy to fix... :'}

-----Original Message-----
From: dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf
Of Simon Hobson
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 9:10 AM
To: dhcp-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: domain-search garbage in format string

Kingsmill, Geoff wrote:
>I just tried to use the new dhcp option 119 (domain-search) feature in the
>dhcp 3.1.0a2 kit.
>Unfortunately I cannot get it to work. When I run dhclient I get the
error:-
>Domain-search: garbage in format string: D
>Domain-search: 8 extra bytes
>
>A network trace shows the dhcp option 119 data as
>
>HEX-DATA:  77     08     02     68 70 03     63 6f 6d 00
>FORMATTED: option 8bytes 2bytes h  p  3bytes c  o  m  end
>            119    total
>
>If I have read RFC3397 correctly then this looks correct.

I agree, it looks right to me. That suggests a client bug.





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