Re: syslog questions
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Thursday 2009 January 15 10:58:28 Frank McCormick wrote:
>> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>>> On Thursday 2009 January 15 09:09:11 Frank McCormick wrote:
>>>> Jan 15 10:00:09 debian dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port
>>>> 67 Jan 15 10:00:26 debian dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1
>>>> port 67 Jan 15 10:01:32 debian last message repeated 4 times
>>>> Jan 15 10:02:36 debian last message repeated 6 times
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone tell me what's going on ??
>>> Looks like eth0 is sending out a DHCPREQUEST (i.e. requesting an IP from
>>> the network) roughly every 10-15 seconds. Sounds like your local dhclient
>>> is misconfigured.
>> Strange because there have been no changes (other than updates) on
>> this machine for weeks. And it just started doing this.
>
> It could actually be a change with the DHCP server on the network, it could be
> giving out leases that are already expired or something. Still, it's
> definitely a DHCP problem.
>
>> The daemon log is being filled with the same stuff.
>> the avihi-daemon was just updated and it's still doing the same thing!!
>
> Yeah, avahi does a few things everytime a network connection comes up and goes
> down, DBUS might as well. It looks like your network connection on eth0 is
> bouncing quite a bit.
>
> You might try restarting the network on the machine.
I tried that...but then decided a reboot was in order. That seems to
have fixed it...but I am not sure what the problem was..with the daemon
( which coincidentally got updated) or something else .
Cheers
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