Once upon a time, Florian Weimer <fweimer(a)redhat.com> said:
* Chris Adams:
> Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> said:
>> It seems as if the ISC dhcp package has been EOL'd upstream:
>>
>>
https://www.isc.org/dhcp/
>
> I'm a little surprised that nobody has forked this to continue
> maintaining it. dhcpd is widely used, and kea is far from a drop-in
> replacement.
It's … just not very good. A lot of the logic resides in a shell script
that runs as root, uses bash arithmetic expansion, and processes
untrusted data from the network. That's not a good combination at all.
Well, I was really talking about dhcpd, not dhclient.
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Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>