On Tue, 30 May 2023 at 08:46, Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> wrote: > Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> said: > > It seems as if the ISC dhcp package has been EOL'd upstream: > > > > https://www.isc.org/dhcp/ > > I'm a little surprised that nobody has forked this to continue > maintaining it. dhcpd is widely used, and kea is far from a drop-in > replacement. > > It is also not sexy software and you have to deal with a very hornery set of bug reports where everything going wrong in any office is of course blamed on DHCP. [You also need to know about the deep intricacies of a ton of flags and settings which may have stated RFC uses but have been misused for decades because some hardware decided to reuse a flag for a boot-time option. You 'fix' an issue and you usually find you broke some key infrastructure no one 'knew' about except someone who retired 4 to 10 years ago.
With that, I can see why ISC is 'burying' the software for some poor sucker to take up. -- Stephen Smoogen, Red Hat Automotive Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle. -- Ian MacClaren
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