Re: Installer can't handle multiple domain names from DHCP

Jason Spence <[email protected]> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:15:46 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.configuration
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:29:33PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: 
> > Are you sure that multiple domain names are permitted here?
> > RFC2132 does not seem to allow that.
> > Neither does "man dhcp-options"
> 
> I use it all the time to setup the search field of my /etc/resolv.conf.

It turns out that Apple and Microsoft defined RFC #3397 very recently,
which provides the necessary functionality.  I've always thought that
concatenating the domains together with spaces was a bit of a hack,
given that none of the docs officially sanctioned the practice.

Not sure about ISC's plans to support it.

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