Re: problems with dhclient after upgrade to sarge
Hi David!
what does 'route -an' give you?
what does 'cat /etc/resolv.conf' give you?
you are getting an ip, obviously, so maybe try pinging your dhcp-server?
regs,
klaus
* David Ballantyne <ballanty@cita.utoronto.ca> [2004-04-21 16:31:
> From: David Ballantyne <ballanty@cita.utoronto.ca>
> Subject: problems with dhclient after upgrade to sarge
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: debian-testing@lists.debian.org
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> Hi,
>
> Last night I upgraded my woody system to Sarge, and my dhclient broke.
> Before the upgrade I was using the package that came with woody
> (dhcp3-client 3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.2) and it worked 'out of the box'. That is,
> all I had to do was type /sbin/dhclient and I was fine. After the upgrade,
> dhcp3-client 3.0+3.0.1rc13-1 was installed, and nothing was working.
>
> The first problem encountered following the upgrade was, after typing
> /sbin/dhclient as root, I got messages such as 'receive_packet Network is
> down' and 'send packet: network is down', and of course it didn't
> configure. After some Google searches (on another computer), it looked
> like the problem was that the network was not being brought up:
> once I typed 'ifconfig eth0 up' and re-ran /sbin/dhclient it looked like
> it worked.
>
> But it didn't. Although the messages dhclient is putting to the screen
> look like normal messages (i.e., it gets bound to an address and a renewal
> time from the server) I can't connect to the internet. If a try to ssh
> into a machine I get a 'Temporary failure in name resolution' error.
> Furthmore, if I run 'ifconfig' it lists eth0 and lo as normal, but there
> is no internet address assigned to eth0 even though it looks like dhclient
> was sent one. It does say 'UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST', but no 'inet
> addr'.
>
> I'm at a loss for ideas right now. As I said earlier, it worked trivially
> under woody, so I know it is not a problem with any of the kernel
> configurations or drivers (as those were not updated in my transition to
> Sarge). I would appreciate any help or guidance on this matter.
>
> Please respond directly to me, as I am not subscribed to the mailing
> lists.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> David
>
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