On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
>> Earlier versions of pump -- those shipped with Red Hat 6.0 and 6.1, in
>> particular -- were extremely buggy ...
>
> I keep hearing this, but I use pump on RH6.1 at home, and we use it
> extensively at work (on pro'ly 80+ machines), and I have not had a single
> problem with pump. Not one.
Most of the problems, AFAICS, stem from poor forsight on the part of the
implementors. Unhandled conditions, such as buffer overflows, and infinite
loops because the exit condition is never met. Generally not in the DHCP code
itself, but in support code. There were several bugs in the code that parsed
and/or rewrote the /etc/resolv.conf file, for example. Generally speaking,
you'd see them on all machines, or none at all. pump flat out wouldn't work
at NHCTC, for example, until we installed an errata patch from Red Hat.
--
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