In the original Domain Search option patch, an invalid option value
would cause the whole lease to be rejected. However, DHCP servers who
emit such an invalid value are more common than I thought. With this new
patch, just the option is rejected, not the entire lease.
PR: bin/163431
Submitted by: Fabian Keil <fk@fabiankeil.de> (earlier version)
Reviewed by: Fabian Keil <fk@fabiankeil.de>
Sponsored by: Yakaz (http://www.yakaz.com)
The "domain-search" option (option 119) allows a DHCP server to publish
a list of implicit domain suffixes used during name lookup. This option
is described in RFC 3397.
For instance, if the domain-search option says:
".example.org .example.com"
and one wants to resolve "foobar", the resolver will try:
1. "foobar.example.org"
2. "foobar.example.com"
The file /etc/resolv.conf is updated with a "search" directive if the
DHCP server provides "domain-search".
A regression test suite is included in this patch under
tools/regression/sbin/dhclient.
PR: bin/151940
Sponsored by Yakaz (http://www.yakaz.com)
