Thank you, Ted Lemon and Paul Vixie for the ISC DHCP server and client! My days would be so boring without them. I revel in your wisdom, experience, and sheer genius when I get behind some of the design decisions you made when writing those pieces of software.
My current favourite is the hook integration into
dhclient-script(8). Read what the manpage has to say
about it:
[…] the client script checks for the presence of an executable
/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooksscript, and if present, it invokes the script inline, using the Bourne shell.command. The entire environment documented under OPERATION is available to this script, which may modify the environment if needed to change the behaviour of the script.
Hooks which can modify the environment and thus influence all
other hooks that follow, as well as the script which applies the
network configuration dhclient obtained to the local
machine! Yay! Genius!
You are my heroes.
NP: Pluto: Pipeline under the Ocean
