dhclient: "no expiry time on offered lease" with null address lease time
Karl Beldan
karl.beldan at gmail.com
Sun Sep 5 19:36:03 UTC 2010
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:25 PM, David W. Hankins <dhankins at isc.org> wrote:
> Our next round of maintenance will address issues surrounding
> ridiculously low lease times in the client, since there has been
Good, though I would certainly not consider a null time the same.
> a rash of this lately, but this;
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:17:20PM +0200, Karl Beldan wrote:
>> + if (ds.len > 3) {
>> + expiry = getULong (ds.data);
>> + if (expiry == 0)
>> + expiry = TIME_MAX;
>> + }
>
> is simply not acceptable.
>
Agreed, note this is ~the way dhcpcd behaves.
The intent was to google-counter your mail
(http://osdir.com/ml/network.dhcp.isc.dhcp-client/2005-08/msg00007.html)
in which you do not question the ISC dhcp client, and show precisely
were the error lies with a quick diff.
Anyways, thanks for the feedback.
--
Karl
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