[CUWiN-Dev] Rev. 4085 disappearing default routes

[David Young]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 08:38:21PM -0500, Brandon Bowersox wrote:
> 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 :-).   

I agree!  We made an rc2 to test precisely so we could shake out issues
like this.

Thanks Dan, Tom, and Bryan for your testing & debugging efforts!

Dave

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