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Bug 599721 - dhclient web site is incorrect
dhclient web site is incorrect
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Dan Williams
Dan Williams
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-10-27 02:29 UTC by Samuel B. Quiring
Modified: 2010-02-05 06:53 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Samuel B. Quiring 2009-10-27 02:29:44 UTC 
dhclient displays this when you invoke it:

Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

See that URL on the last line?  It does not exist.
Comment 1 Dan Williams 2010-02-01 22:51:44 UTC 
This is a bug in dhclient then, since that message is provided by dhclient and not NM or nm-applet.  Please file a bug upstream with the ISC about it.  Thansk!
Comment 2 Samuel B. Quiring 2010-02-01 23:10:37 UTC 
Wouldn't it make more sense for you to file the bug upstream?  Aren't you the ones that are repackaging ISC's software?

I can probably figure out how to do it, but I have no experience, no contacts, no info, etc.  Don't you?
Comment 3 Samuel B. Quiring 2010-02-02 15:54:43 UTC 
I submitted the bug to ISC.  Mark Andrews, ISC, responded:

The current client says, https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp.  You
should ask Ubuntu to ship a current release.  The current version
on the ISC DHCP 3.1 chain is ISC DHCP 3.1.3

I'll see if I can get a redirect added for http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
but no promises
Comment 4 Samuel B. Quiring 2010-02-02 15:56:22 UTC 
Changing the status.
Comment 5 Dan Williams 2010-02-05 06:53:58 UTC 
Ok, since this is an Ubuntu bug since they are not shipping a new enough version, please file the bug in Launchpad.  Most other non-Debian distros ship current versions of dhclient.  NetworkManager itself has no control over what dhclient version the distros ship, that's the distros responsibility.  Upstream NetworkManager (ie, here) does not package or modify dhclient.