** Description changed:
+ [Impact]
+ Systems booted off the network where the DHCP server provides a domain name
but no search domains may wish to rely on the domain name as a search value (as
is done in isc-dhcp in userland, outside the initramfs), to be able to use
short names for resolving hosts.
+
+ [Test cases]
+ 1) Boot a system with a remote root over the network
+ - Typically this requires adding ip=(some IP settings) or ip=dhcp on the
kernel command-line, and is better done automatically.
+ One good setup for this is to use MaaS to configure the system; where it will
require a remote root over iSCSI.
+ 2) Break boot in the initramfs (adding 'break=bottom' or 'break=premount' to
stop in the initramfs at its end, or just before it mounts filesystems)
+ 3) Validate the contents of /etc/resolv.conf
+
+ [Regression potential]
+ Potential regressions would include incorrectly resolving names, bad
configuration of /etc/resolv.conf (invalid values for the fields, or missing
fields), or even failure to mount the remote root in the cases where name
resolution is required to find the remote server.
+
+ --
+
For networked systems, for instance booting with an iSCSI root, dhclient
writes an output file in the form of /run/net-<iface>.conf that contains
data for other programs to consume. This allows, for instance, open-
iscsi to get the right information and properly connect to the server to
mount the root filesystem.
It is common for DHCP servers to only provide a domain name value, and
no search domains. In this case, isc-dhcp doesn't currently write
DOMAINSEARCH, but people may wish to use short names to resolve things
(such as in iSCSI server).
In the not-initramfs dhclient-script, when domain_search isn't provided
but domain_name is, domain_name is written to the search string. If both
are provided, domain_search is written. The initramfs enter hook should
do the same.
** Changed in: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu Xenial)
Status: In Progress => Invalid
** Also affects: klibc (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: klibc (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: klibc (Ubuntu Xenial)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: klibc (Ubuntu Zesty)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: klibc (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)
** Changed in: klibc (Ubuntu Xenial)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)
** Changed in: klibc (Ubuntu Zesty)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)
** Changed in: klibc (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: klibc (Ubuntu Xenial)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: klibc (Ubuntu Zesty)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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missing DOMAINSEARCH in initramfs output files if the DHCP server
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