Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:05:47 +1100 From: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Mark Space <markspace@sbcglobal.net> Subject: Re: DHCP client error: domain_not_set.invalid Message-ID: <200511142205.jAEM5lkA016867@drugs.dv.isc.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:44:33 -0800." <20051114174433.GB1928@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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> > --61jdw2sOBCFtR2d/ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 07:14:00PM -0800, Mark Space wrote: > > Hi all, > >=20 > > I just set up the latest 6.0 release, and I'm getting errors with the=20 > > DHCP client. Trying to pull a network address during start up, I get: > >=20 > > Bogus domain search list 15: domain_not_set.invalid > >=20 > > This repeats several times before giving up. Google tells me that this= > =20 > > problem was report by two users on the bsd-current list. No one ever=20 > > replied to their inquiries (at least on the list), so I thought to try=20 > > once more to see if there's any interest in addressing this issue.=20 > >=20 > > More info was in the original post: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-October/057034.ht= > ml > > We should really bitch and then ignore this value when it's bogus rather > than rejecting the lease. We should also probably allow underscores > since they are popular among clueless Microsoft admins. Please try the > follow patch. Yes. They are clueless. However giving into their cluelessness just perpetuates the cluelessness. Underscores have never been legal in hostnames. Underscores are deliberately used to provide namespaces which do not collide with the hostname namespace. Accepting underscores just allows the namespaces to collide. Mark > -- Brooks -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews@isc.org
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