[ipxe-devel] Fresh IPXE bug involving http ports

[allen]

Hi All,

We've been using iPXE for several years but I recently made changes to 
our process and while doing so, built the latest version.  Think I've 
found a bug.

We use a mechanism by which a script is delivered to iPXE via http over 
non-standard port 4000.  From our dhcpd.conf:

    } elsif exists user-class and option user-class = "iPXE" {
       filename "http://10.xx.xx.xx:4000/ipxe";

That script provides a menu with a default, which in turn loads the same 
script again with a different default, which ultimately pulls a kernel 
and initrd via http over the standard port 80.

What I'm seeing is that the kernel request fails telling me that the 
file doesn't exist.  Checking the web server logs, I see that the 
request is actually being issued to port 4000 (the port we used to 
initially provide the iPXE script.)

After this failure the script ends and drops me to the iPXE shell.  If I 
then manually type the same kernel command, it works perfectly (loads 
via port 80).

I did a bit of bisection and found that the issue seems to have appeared 
in 
https://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commit/518a98eb56f073c4fd1f20c730e474a6f2c8c2e9.

If there's anything I can do to provide more information or assist with 
debugging, let me know!

For now, we're building the previous commit and all is well.

Cheers,
Allen