On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 08:41:25PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
> I have a problem with my dhclient on my debian box.
>
> It keeps picking up an IP address and then losing it in a few seconds.
>
> Apr 30 20:31:40 localhost dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
> Apr 30 20:31:40 localhost dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.10 -- renewal in
> 1800 seconds.
> server says:
> Apr 30 20:18:30 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port
> 67
> Apr 30 20:18:30 localhost dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
>
> Within seconds of this last entry, it's back to 169.254......
> But the network works.
>
> nothing in dhclient.conf.
> nothing odd in dhclient.leases.
> nothing odd about the dhcp server.
> but I keep getting this strange behaviour.
>
> my dhclient.leases file is 100% correct
> lease {
> interface "eth0";
> fixed-address 192.168.1.10;
> option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> option routers 192.168.1.1;
> option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.2;
> option domain-name "tacocat.net";
> option dhcp-lease-time 3600;
> option dhcp-message-type 5;
> option dhcp-server-identifier 192.168.1.1;
> renew 1 2006/5/1 00:54:08;
> rebind 1 2006/5/1 01:16:38;
> expire 1 2006/5/1 01:24:08;
> }
>
> Even the dates at the end indication that nothing should be expiring
> anytime soon. I'll assume that there is always a renew attempt at 1/2 the
> dhcp-lease-time? But There's no reason it should be this messed up.
>
> What can I look at next?
this looks a little different that other postings about zeroconf, but
you might check. if you have zeroconf installed, purge it and see if
that helps.
A
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