multiple domain search for dhcp client

Bill Shirley bill at c3po.polymerindustries.biz
Tue Oct 15 18:52:05 UTC 2019


It's all up to the client what it does with the information DHCP passes out.

It's been my experience that the order DHCP gives on the domain-search
is the order the client uses.

Bill

On 10/15/2019 11:23 AM, Surya Teja wrote:
> Hi ,
> If the option 119 is granted by the dhcp server to the dhcp client, will the perference of the domain value matters?
> Ex: option domain-search "example.com <http://example.com>","example1.com <http://example1.com>","example2.com 
> <http://example2.com>" will it makes any difference if the order changes ?
>
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, 19:44 dave calafrancesco, <dcalaf at drakkar.org <mailto:dcalaf at drakkar.org>> wrote:
>
>     You want to set this:
>
>       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 <http://example.com>", "sales.example.com <http://sales.example.com>",
>                                       "eng.example.com <http://eng.example.com>";
>
>     Dave
>
>     On 10/13/19 09:52, Surya Teja wrote:
>     > Hi I want to send multiple domains information to the dhcp client from the dhcp server, but the
>     > option domain-name is taking only one domain, I cannot give comma separated list for it, On
>     > surfing the internet I found the option 119 where we can give comma separate list.
>     > I have added it to my config but the dhcp client is not getting the info, because in the dhcp
>     > client request packet it is not asking for option 119
>     > Is there any way that dhcp server can offer all the options defined in its scope modules to the
>     > client irrespective of the client asking for the specific option or
>     > Any way of introducing the specific option in the request packet from the client to dhcp server
>     > and make use of it.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Thanks in advance.
>     >
>     >
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