Environment
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Open Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux
DHCPD
Situation
DHCP will not hand out global or subnet options
DHCP clients not recieving option 78
DHCP clients not recieving option 78
Linux dhcpd.conf not authoritative
Resolution
DHCP on linux defaults a server to "not authoritative" this
means the server is not authoritative for the local subnet.
The server must be changed to authoritative before options can be
recieved by clients, this is resolved by the uncommenting or adding
the following line to the global section of dhcpd.conf.
# If this DHCP server is the official DHCP server for the
local
# network, the authoritative directive should be uncommented.
authoritative;
# network, the authoritative directive should be uncommented.
authoritative;