freebsd stable - Nov 2005 - DHCP client error: domain_not_set.invalid

Hi all,

I just set up the latest 6.0 release, and I'm getting errors with the 
DHCP client.  Trying to pull a network address during start up, I get:

Bogus domain search list 15: domain_not_set.invalid

This repeats several times before giving up.  Google tells me that this 
problem was report by two users on the bsd-current list.  No one ever 
replied to their inquiries (at least on the list), so I thought to try 
once more to see if there's any interest in addressing this issue. 

More info was in the original post:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-October/057034.html

I had this as well. It means that your DHCP server returns an invalid 
search domain.

The easy way to solve it (if you have access) is to set the search 
domain to something valid in your DHCP server (Linksys router by any 
chance?). I couldn't find a flag on dhclient to tell it to ignore 
invalid search domains: this would be really handy so that you can 
connect to badly set up networks when you don't have access to the router.

Greetings,
Sebastiaan

Mark Space wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just set up the latest 6.0 release, and I'm getting errors with the 
> DHCP client.  Trying to pull a network address during start up, I get:
> 
> Bogus domain search list 15: domain_not_set.invalid
> 
> This repeats several times before giving up.  Google tells me that this 
> problem was report by two users on the bsd-current list.  No one ever 
> replied to their inquiries (at least on the list), so I thought to try 
> once more to see if there's any interest in addressing this issue.
> More info was in the original post:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-October/057034.html
> 
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On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 07:14:00PM -0800, Mark Space
wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just set up the latest 6.0 release, and I'm getting errors with the 
> DHCP client.  Trying to pull a network address during start up, I get:
> 
> Bogus domain search list 15: domain_not_set.invalid
> 
> This repeats several times before giving up.  Google tells me that this 
> problem was report by two users on the bsd-current list.  No one ever 
> replied to their inquiries (at least on the list), so I thought to try 
> once more to see if there's any interest in addressing this issue. 
> 
> More info was in the original post:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-October/057034.html
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.

-- Brooks

Index: dhclient.c
==================================================================RCS file:
/home/ncvs/src/sbin/dhclient/dhclient.c,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -p -r1.11 dhclient.c
--- dhclient.c	2 Sep 2005 17:35:35 -0000	1.11
+++ dhclient.c	14 Nov 2005 17:42:46 -0000
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ __FBSDID("$FreeBSD: src/sbin/dhclient/dh
 
 #define	PERIOD 0x2e
 #define	hyphenchar(c) ((c) == 0x2d)
+#define	underscorechar(c) ((c) == 0x5f)
 #define	bslashchar(c) ((c) == 0x5c)
 #define	periodchar(c) ((c) == PERIOD)
 #define	asterchar(c) ((c) == 0x2a)
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ __FBSDID("$FreeBSD: src/sbin/dhclient/dh
 #define	whitechar(c) ((c) == ' ' || (c) == '\t')
 
 #define	borderchar(c) (alphachar(c) || digitchar(c))
-#define	middlechar(c) (borderchar(c) || hyphenchar(c))
+#define	middlechar(c) (borderchar(c) || hyphenchar(c) || underscorechar(c))
 #define	domainchar(c) ((c) > 0x20 && (c) < 0x7f)
 
 #define	CLIENT_PATH "PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin"
@@ -2252,6 +2253,8 @@ check_option(struct client_lease *l, int
 		if (!res_hnok(sbuf)) {
 			warning("Bogus Host Name option %d: %s (%s)", option,
 			    sbuf, opbuf);
+			l->options[option].len = 0;
+			free(l->options[option].data);
 			return (0);
 		}
 		return (1);
@@ -2260,7 +2263,8 @@ check_option(struct client_lease *l, int
 			if (!check_search(sbuf)) {
 				warning("Bogus domain search list %d: %s (%s)",
 				    option, sbuf, opbuf);
-				return (0);
+				l->options[option].len = 0;
+				free(l->options[option].data);
 			}
 		}
 		return (1);

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