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Bug#688470: netcfg infinitely tries to get a DHCPv6 reply in mixed stateless/stateful autoconfig if the DHCPv6 server does not reply



On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 12:31:09AM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote:
> Even if DNS info is not supplied via router advertisements but
> via DHCPv6, it would be better from a user perspective if the
> DHCPv6 request would timeout after a reasonable amount of time
> and the user gets asked for the missing DNS information.

The code intends to do that. However dhcp6c double forks and it loses track
about its child because of this (after all it already exited). I bet this was
never exposed because Ubuntu uses isc-dhcp-client instead of
wide-dhcpv6-client. *sigh*

So Gasha's problem might have been the same problem in the end…

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

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