[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#465158: network-manager: Please add support for domain-search

[Bas Zoetekouw]

tag 465158 + patch
thanks

Hi!

You wrote:

> ISC DHCP 3.1 provides support for the domain-search option. This is the
> correct way for a DHCP server to provide a domain search list. Wedging
> multiple domains into the domain-name option is a horrible hack.
> It seems, however, that that is what NetworkManager expects, and so how
> it generates an /etc/resolv.conf. This behaviour should be changed in
> light of dhclient 3.1, and should do something like this:

Attached is a patch that should fix this.  It adds support for the
domain-search option of dhcp, and uses the logic you suggested to
determine what search domains to put in resolv.conf.  

I have tested the patch only at my local configurationw, which is
n-m + dhcp3-client 3.1.0-2 (no resolvconf) on my laptop, and a pre-3.1
dhcp3-server on my server (current etch version), and for that config,
it seems to work fine.  Testing for other configuration, particular with
a new, post-3.1, dhcpd is probably needed, though.

Please feel free to send the patch upstream, if you think it's stable
enough.

Best regards,
Bas.

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