Subject: misc/32419: DHCPD documentation does not cover all settings in /etc/dhcpd.conf
To: None <misc-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: None <ole.hellqvist@spray.se>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/30/2005 19:35:00
>Number: 32419
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: DHCPD documentation does not cover all settings in /etc/dhcpd.conf
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: misc-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Dec 30 19:35:00 +0000 2005
>Originator: Ole Hellqvist
>Release: NetBSD 3.0
>Organization:
Home user
>Environment:
NetBSD ak73.oxen 3.0 NetBSD 3.0 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Dec 19 01:04:02 UTC 2005 builds@works.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-0-RELEASE/i386/200512182024Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-0-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
>Description:
After doing the settings described in :
http://netbsd.org/Documentation/network/dhcp.html#configure-dhcp
the dhcpd command gives the output as below:
"
ak73: {3} dhcpd
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.1rc11
Copyright 1995-2003 Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
** You must add a ddns-update-style statement to /etc/dhcpd.conf.
To get the same behaviour as in 3.0b2pl11 and previous
versions, add a line that says "ddns-update-style ad-hoc;"
Please read the dhcpd.conf manual page for more information. **
If you did not get this software from ftp.isc.org, please
get the latest from ftp.isc.org and install that before
requesting help.
If you did get this software from ftp.isc.org and have not
yet read the README, please read it before requesting help.
If you intend to request help from the dhcp-server@isc.org
mailing list, please read the section on the README about
submitting bug reports and requests for help.
Please do not under any circumstances send requests for
help directly to the authors of this software - please
send them to the appropriate mailing list as described in
the README file.
exiting.
"
After adding the line:
ddns-update-style ad-hoc;
to the very end of the file /etc/dhcpd.conf
the dhcpd started as expected, see below:
"
ak73: {4} xedit /etc/dhcpd.conf
ak73: {5} dhcpd
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.1rc11
Copyright 1995-2003 Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
Wrote 0 leases to leases file.
Listening on BPF/re0/00:08:a1:7a:f6:51/192.168.1.0/24
Sending on BPF/re0/00:08:a1:7a:f6:51/192.168.1.0/24
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
ak73: {6}
"
>How-To-Repeat:
see above
>Fix:
add the missing line to the documentation as described above.