DHCP client error: domain_not_set.invalid

[Mark Space]

Thanks to Sebastian and Brooks for their quick replies.  I took the easy 
way out and installed the ISC client which works just fine.

The problem is my DHCP server is a DSL modem.  I don't see any way to 
set the domain field.  In addition, this interface is really not on a 
network but a connection between two networks (its PPPoE), it make sense 
that my ISP has configured the modem this way.  The interface is one 
that will be addressed only by address, it really doesnt have a name.  
Or at least, the DHCP "server" doesn't assign a domain, its set elsewhere.

So I think Brooks is correct.  The dhcp client should just ignore the 
domain setting and just assume that there is no domain associated with 
this interface.  Should we suggest this to the OpenBSD client maintainer?


Brooks Davis wrote:

>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);
>
>  
>