DHCP question

[Kevin D. Clark]

pll at lanminds.com writes:

> Does anyone know offhand how many DNS search domains are allowed to be 
> issued by a DHCP server to the client?
>
> For some reason I seem to think it's only one, but I don't remember 
> if that was a protocol limitation or a limit with ISC's 
> implementation.

The way that the protocol is defined doesn't place any particular
limits on the number of search domains.  The limit is definitely not
1.

> Also, anyone know if MS ever fixed their DNS resolver to be able to 
> search more than 2 domains?  At one time you used to be able list a 
> primary, secondary, then a list of tertiary domains to search, but 
> their resolve code was broken so that it never searched past the 
> secondary.  Is this still true?

I don't know if they ever fixed this.

Regards,

--kevin
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