Error in part of dhcpd.conf man page on booting flag?

Glenn Satchell Glenn.Satchell at uniq.com.au
Tue Oct 23 12:58:23 UTC 2007


>From: Bart Van den Broeck <bart at kuleuven.net>
>To: dhcp-users at isc.org
>Subject: Error in part of dhcpd.conf man page on booting flag?
>Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:08:28 +0200 (CEST)
>
>According to the man page for dhcpd.conf:
>       The  booting  flag  is  used to tell dhcpd whether or not to respond to
>       queries from a particular client.  This keyword only has  meaning  when
>       it appears in a host declaration.
>
>Despite that, there are many messages on the list explaining how to deny RAS
>clients a lease by putting "deny booting" into a class declaration (e.g.
>http://marc.info/?l=dhcp-server&m=111563063424917&w=2  ,
>http://marc.info/?l=dhcp-server&m=109707939405989&w=2 ).  And it even seems
>to work as expected.  Is this a "man page bug"?
>
>Kind regards
>Bart Van den Broeck

If it is please feel free to rewrite that section. I think the key
words would be that it applies to any host in the scope where it is
defined. So it may indeed work in a host, group, subnet, class or
global scope.

regards,
-glenn


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