Bug 772258

Summary: dhclient-script writes yp.conf ignoring superseded options
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings>
Component: dhcpAssignee: Jiri Popelka <jpopelka>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Ben Hutchings 2012-01-06 15:58:23 UTC
Description of problem:
The DHCP server in this environment says to broadcast requests to NIS servers, which results in the following being written to yp.conf:

    # generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
    domain my.domain broadcast

For some reason this doesn't work, but that's not the bug I'm reporting now.  I should be able to override this by putting these options in dhclient.conf:

    interface "eth0" {
        supersede nis-domain "my.domain";
        supersede nis-servers "server.my.domain";
        ...
    }

However, yp.conf still gets overwritten with the 'broadcast' configuration.  I had to use 'chattr +i' to protect it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dhclient-4.2.3-4.P1.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure DHCP server to specify NIS broadcast
2. Configure dhclient with the above 'supersede' options
3. Restart network service
  
Actual results:
yp.conf is set to the server-specified NIS configuration.

Expected results:
yp.conf is written according to the superseding options, something like:

    # generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
    domain my.domain server server.my.domain

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jiri Popelka 2012-01-06 16:46:16 UTC
Hmmm, strange.

Does superseding some other option (for example domain-name-servers) work ?

Comment 2 Ben Hutchings 2012-01-06 18:21:58 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Hmmm, strange.
> 
> Does superseding some other option (for example domain-name-servers) work ?

I thought it did because I have:

    interface "eth0" {
        ...
        append domain-search "my.other.domain";
    }

However, adding another 'supsersede' line doesn't work.  I suspect that
/etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf is now being entirely ignored in favour of the Network Manager configuration.  But I have no idea how I would set arbitrary DHCP options for Network Manager, or where this is documented.

Perhaps this is a doc-bug?

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