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

[Geert Stappers]

Op 20101114 om 11:18 schreef Gene Cumm:
> 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.

FWIW
commit 83ffac5bc53ba7a8626a1bc35e76cf4b3a781a37
Author: Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Nov 14 11:13:27 2010 -0500

    PXELINUX: Fix DNS resolver to properly use LocalDomain when needed.

diff --git a/core/fs/pxe/dnsresolv.c b/core/fs/pxe/dnsresolv.c
index 2b263fa..e76f2f8 100644
--- a/core/fs/pxe/dnsresolv.c
+++ b/core/fs/pxe/dnsresolv.c
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ uint32_t dns_resolv(const char *name)
         p--; /* Remove final null */
         /* Uncompressed DNS label set so it ends in null */
         strcpy(p, LocalDomain);
+	while (*(p++)) {}
     }
 
     /* Fill the DNS query packet */