Re: [Etherboot-developers] Re: Re: [Etherboot-users] [PATCH] ISC dhcpd siaddr (next-server) zero default change in 3.0.2

[H. P. A. <hp...@zy...>]

Geert Stappers wrote:
> 
> And I think it is a lie to say in a poor configurated DHCP server
> that the same hardware is also a TFTP server. The right thing is
> to tell in the DHCP server where the TFTP server is.
> 
> From the manual page of ISC DHCP server:
> 
>       next-server server-name;
> 
>       The next-server statement is used to specify the host address of
>       the server from which the initial boot file (specified in the file-
>       name  statement) is to be loaded. Server-name should be a numeric
>       IP address or a domain name.
> 
> 
> So doing the right thing is this time easy  :-)
> 

The really dumb thing was that ISC went from defaulting to the common 
configuration of "TFTP server == DHCP server" to defaulting to no TFTP 
server, without warning.  For much smaller changes they've issued 
warnings for several releases before changing.

	-hpa