[CUWiN-Dev] Rev. 4085 disappearing default routes

[Brandon Bowersox]

On Jul 19, 2006, at 8:25 PM, Bryan Cribbs wrote:
> First, sorry for the headaches caused.
>
> So, the nodeconfig will soon:
>    1. attempt to read new keys from it's master file
>    2. attempt to read old keys from it's master file
>    3. attempt to read keys tagged as "default" from it's master file
>    4. fall back on hardcoded values (such as 'domainname.tld').
>
> Critically missing at the moment is (2)... which is what screwed  
> things up.
>
> I intentionally made the hardcoded values agnostic to any  
> distribution, because I expect that in any deployment (in Urbana,  
> Chicago, California, etc.), the images will contain the appropriate  
> default keys for things like ssid and nameserver.  What I  
> overlooked was that the key name changed and most nodes out there  
> didn't have anything for the new key names, so nodes fell back to  
> (4).  I should have foreseen this.  Adding (2) should preserve  
> existing values.  Again, I apologize.

No need to apologize -- this is why we planned time for testing :-).   
If there's an appropriate documentation file in SVN, please copy the  
above text there.