[syslinux] PXELINUX: DNS issue on unqualified names [PATCH][git-pull]

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Sun Nov 14 08:18:17 PST 2010


On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:32, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Per doc/pxelinux.txt, the special PXELINUX filename specification of
> "IP address::filename" allows "IP address" to be a DNS recognizable
> name.  If it contains no dots, the domain name (DHCP option 15) is
> supposed to be appended to qualify the name.
>
> Testing PXELINUX 3.86, this behavior does occur as I can see the DNS
> request having the specified domain name appended properly.  Testing
> with PXELINUX 4.03, I notice that the domain name is not appended.
>
> I'm going to look into why this occurs.

This was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be.

git://git.zytor.com/users/genec/syslinux.git

Branch pxelinux-dns-for-hpa has the trivial patch.

-- 
-Gene




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