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batfastad
Asked: 2013-12-06 09:13:06 +0800 CST

CentOS 5 domain-search from DHCP server ignored by dhclient

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I have a DHCP server running ISC dhcpd which offers the option domain-search "domain.local"; option.

This is being ignored by a particular CentOS 5 dhclient which is removing the search parameter in resolv.conf even if I add it in manually and restart networking.

When looking at the dhclient lease in /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient-eth0.leases I notice that the option domain-search is not among the options it's received from the DHCP server.

I'm aware that you can set a dhclient.conf file to locally override options received from DHCP servers but there doesn't appear to be an /etc/dhclient.conf or /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf

It's strange that it's being actively overwritten and not in the local leases file. CentOS 6 guests appear to be receiving the option ok.

Anyone aware of any other conditions where this might happen?
OS is CentOS 5.8 64bit and dhclient 12:3.0.5-33.el5_9

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  1. Best Answer

    Solved! Basically it appears that dhclient with CentOS 5 doesn't recognise the domain-search option from dhcpd, whereas CentOS 6 does.

    I additionally specified the domain-name option in dhcpd.conf and a networking restart on the CentOS guests got the search parameter added to /etc/resolv.conf

    Hope this helps someone out.

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