Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 772258
dhclient-script writes yp.conf ignoring superseded options
Last modified: 2013-02-13 10:12:34 EST
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:
Hmmm, strange. Does superseding some other option (for example domain-name-servers) work ?
(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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