dhcp3-client (3.1.0-3) unstable; urgency=low ISC DHCP 3.1 started supporting a domain-search option, so as of this release, the domain-name option now determines the domain option in /etc/resolv.conf and the domain-search option determines the search option in /etc/resolv.conf Putting multiple domains in the domain-name option was a hack to manipulate the domain search list in versions prior to 3.1, but now that there is a proper way to do it, the dhcp3-client package will be behaving this way. This only currently applies if resolvconf is not in use. See #460609 for when resolvconf will start doing the "right" thing To help with the transition, as of 3.1.0-3, if resolvconf is not in use, and only a domain-name option is supplied by the DHCP server (or added in dhclient.conf), the first domain will set the domain option in /etc/resolv.conf, and the entire contents of the domain-name option will set the search option (essentially the old hack of specifying multiple domain names in the domain-name option will continue to work if a domain-search option is not provided). Specifying multiple domains in the domain-name option is technically invalid, and support for this is subject to be removed once a version of the DHCP server >=3.1 is in a stable release of Debian. -- Andrew Pollock Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:33:58 -0800