Hi,

dhcpd happily accepts the following line in /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf:

abrakadabra;

Basically, it seems on insist on the closing semicolon only.  This was
most annoying when I mispelt authoritative on the first line...

Thanks,
Feri.

Hi,

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Ferenc Wagner has reported this minor bug, and I have confirmed it in
version 3.0.3 as well.

Are there any plans on making the configuration parsing more strict?

regards

Andrew

Yes, this is ISC-Bugs #1177 (note the very low number), received back
in the Lemon days (it even has a comment from him on it).

The trouble, I think, is that the parser treats unknown objects as NAMEs,
and these in turn get treated as (no-op) executable statements.

Neither Ted nor I have been successful in thinking of a good way to fix
this that doesn't seem to us to be too invasive for maintenance release
(that was also his comment on the ticket).

This is precisely the bug report:

	 authoritive ;

This is a bug - that can and should be illegal syntax.  But fixing it
is too much new entropy for a 3.0 release without enough advantage.

The problem here is that abrakadabra; looks like a variable reference, which
is a perfectly valid expression, which in turn is valid as a statement.   It
would be fairly easy to patch this, but nobody's gotten around to it yet.
If David doesn't have a patch for this in his queue (and I don't remember
seeing one go by), the quick way to deal with the problem would be to submit
one yourself.   It should be pretty easy - just hack the statement parser to
check that if a statement is an expression, it actually does something.

You can't easily check the validity of the variable name at parse time because
it might be valid at runtime.

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