[pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#646062: [PATCH] dhcpd.conf.5 has incorrect info on EVENTs

[Andrew Pollock]

Hello,

This bug was reported by one of our users, and they also provided a
suggested patch.

Please maintain the Cc to keep our bug tracking system in the loop.

regards

Andrew


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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:09:18 +1100
From: Peter Chubb <peter.chubb at nicta.com.au>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Bug#646062: isc-dhcp-server: dhcpd.conf has incorrect info on EVENTs
X-Mailer: reportbug 3.31

Package: isc-dhcp-server
Version: 4.2.2-1
Severity: minor


Now that DDNS is handled in C code, the section in dhcpd.conf on EVENTS 
is out of date.  The on commit and on expiry actions are no longer used for 
DDNS, so are free for sysadmin use.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages isc-dhcp-server depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.40     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   4.0.2      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  isc-dhcp-common               4.2.2-1    common files used by all the isc-d
ii  libc6                         2.13-14    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-27     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

isc-dhcp-server recommends no packages.

-- debconf information excluded




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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:48:58 +1100
From: Peter Chubb <peter.chubb at nicta.com.au>
To: 646062 at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#646062: [PATCH] a suggested patch to the dhcpd.conf(5) man page
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TAGS: Patch

Index: isc-dhcp-4.2.2/server/dhcpd.conf.5
===================================================================
--- isc-dhcp-4.2.2.orig/server/dhcpd.conf.5	2011-06-02 09:30:53.000000000 +1000
+++ isc-dhcp-4.2.2/server/dhcpd.conf.5	2011-10-21 10:47:47.370065257 +1100
@@ -1422,29 +1422,24 @@ that accompanies it.
 There are three kinds of events that can happen regarding a lease, and
 it is possible to declare statements that occur when any of these
 events happen.   These events are the commit event, when the server
 has made a commitment of a certain lease to a client, the release
 event, when the client has released the server from its commitment,
 and the expiry event, when the commitment expires.
 .PP
 To declare a set of statements to execute when an event happens, you
 must use the \fBon\fR statement, followed by the name of the event,
 followed by a series of statements to execute when the event happens,
-enclosed in braces.   Events are used to implement DNS
-updates, so you should not define your own event handlers if you are
-using the built-in DNS update mechanism.
+enclosed in braces.
 .PP
-The built-in version of the DNS update mechanism is in a text
-string towards the top of server/dhcpd.c.   If you want to use events
-for things other than DNS updates, and you also want DNS updates, you
-will have to start out by copying this code into your dhcpd.conf file
-and modifying it.
+Commit events are processed before DDNS updates, expire and release
+events are processed during or after DDNS updates.
 .SH REFERENCE: DECLARATIONS
 .PP
 .B The
 .I include
 .B statement
 .PP
 .nf
  \fBinclude\fR \fI"filename"\fR\fB;\fR
 .fi
 .PP

--
Dr Peter Chubb  http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au  peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au
http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au           ERTOS within National ICT Australia




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