Changing output from error to info

[Doug Barton]

Not clear to me what problem we'd be solving by making this change.


On 11/9/14 11:16 PM, Shawn Routhier wrote:
>
> We have received a suggestion for a change to how we output some
> information (see below) I agree that this information is likely to be
> more of an "info" than an "error" but I'm reticent about changing and
> possibly breaking any scripts that may be looking for it.
>
> My current thought is to make the change in 4.3 (4.3.2) which is
> probably not widely deployed yet, but to leave it as is for 4.1 and
> 4.2
>
> I'd be interested in hearing if people are looking for this string
> and if such a change would present any problems for them.
>
> regards, Shawn Routhier ISC DHCP
>
>
>
> If I don't specify interfaces to listen on, dhcpd listens only on
> interfaces, for whose it finds subnet declaration in dhcpd.conf. For
> each interface where's no corresponding subnet declaration, dhcpd
> spits out an *error* "No subnet declaration for <interface>. Ignoring
> requests on <interface>. If this is not what you want, ..." This
> should not IMHO be an *error*, but only *info*, because there's quite
> a big chance that this is exactly what user wants.
>
> If there's no matching subnet declaration for *any* interface dhcpd
> spits our fatal error "Not configured to listen on any interfaces!"
> which is all right.