DNS Domain in DHCP question?

Kyle McDonald KMcDonald at Egenera.COM
Mon Oct 6 23:14:04 UTC 2008


Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message <48EA5489.4040802 at Egenera.COM>, Kyle McDonald writes:
>   
>> I'll admit I'm playing catchup here.
>>
>>
>> I actually liked the fact that the 'domain' directive in the resolv.conf 
>> used search parent domains automatically. (aside: Any pointers to the 
>> discussions around the logic of turning that behavior off? I'm curious 
>> to learn :) )
>>     
>
> 	RFC 1535.
>   
Thanks mark. I figured it had something to do with security.

  -Kyle
>  
>   
>> It seems now that there isn't any point in using 'domain' at all ever, 
>> so I'm not surprised that the DHCP client is building a resolv.conf with 
>> 'search' and the domain name it receives in the DHCP offer.
>>
>> I can't seem to get DHCP to supply both foo.bar.com and bar.com, so my 
>> real question is, What do other people do to solve, or work around this 
>> problem??
>>
>>    -Kyle
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