- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and

in particular the domain search option (#119) was added. [ISC-Bugs #15934]

common/dhcp-options.5

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: dhcp-options.5,v 1.29 2006/06/01 20:23:17 dhankins Exp $
+.\"	$Id: dhcp-options.5,v 1.30 2006/07/22 02:24:16 dhankins Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2004-2006 by Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
 .\" Copyright (c) 1996-2003 by Internet Software Consortium
@@ -91,6 +91,13 @@ existing DHCP options.   The domain name is stored just as if it were
 a text option.
 .PP
 The
+.B domain-list
+data type specifies a list of domain names, a space between each name and
+the entire string enclosed in double quotes.  These types of data are used
+for the domain-search option for example, and encodes an RFC1035 compressed
+DNS label list on the wire.
+.PP
+The
 .B flag
 data type specifies a boolean value.   Booleans can be either true or
 false (or on or off, if that makes more sense to you).
@@ -389,6 +396,15 @@ The domain-name-servers option specifies a list of Domain Name System
 should be listed in order of preference.
 .RE
 .PP
+.B option \fBdomain-search\fR \fIstring\fR\fB;\fR
+.RS 0.25i
+.PP
+The domain-search option specifies a 'search list' of Domain Names to be
+used by the client to locate not-fully-qualified domain names.  The difference
+between this option and historic use of the domain-name option for the same
+ends is that this option is encoded in RFC1035 compressed labels on the wire.
+.RE
+.PP
 .B option \fBextensions-path\fR \fItext\fR\fB;\fR
 .RS 0.25i
 .PP