[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#504622: network-manager: search options in resolv.conf created incorrectly

[Michael Biebl]

andrew bezella wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 16:38 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: 
>> Hi Andy,
>>
>> could you please check, if you have configured domain-list correctly [1]
>> in dhclient.conf, i.e. lines end with a semicolon and
>> entries are enclosed in double quotes and separated by commas.
> 
> hi michael -
> 
> yep, that was my problem with the "/032" character.  the dhcp-options
> man page in debian contradicts the snippet in the redhat link you sent:
>   The domain-list data type specifies a list of domain names, a space
>   between each name and the entire string enclosed in double quotes.
>   These types of data are used for the domain-search option for example,
>   and encodes an RFC1035 compressed DNS label list on the wire.
> 
> no mention of commas and it states that the _entire_ string should be
> quoted.  once i added the commas and changed the quoting, network
> manager created the resolv.conf search line without the "/032".
> 
> i'm unsure if i should file a bug against dhcp3-client re: the
> documentation, as the format described in the man page seems to work
> outside of network-manager.  do you have a suggestion?
> 
> thanks for your time.  let me know if you need me to supply any
> additional information or try anything regarding the second part of this
> bug (network manager's handling of the "domain" and "search" lines).
> 

I think the dhcp-options man page is outdated. See also [1].
I CCed Andrew, just to be sure.

Nonetheless, even if this is a misconfiguration, I talked to NM
upstream, and we discussed if NM could be a bit smarter and strip off
"/032". After all, it's not a valid domain name component.
Upstream does not seem to be aversed to this idea.

Andrew, what would be your recommendation?

Cheers,
Michael


[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492500#10
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