Quoting Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe ([email protected]): > This bug shows up if the lease is RELEASEd AND is still valid upon ifup. > If the lease is not valid upon ifup, dhclient enters the BOUND state > with empty old_* variables: everyting works well in the samba hook. > If the lease is still valid upon ifup and not RELEASEd, dhclient > re-requests it and enters the somewhat special REBOOT state where it > clears the old_* variables: everyting works well in the samba hook. > Unfortunately, Debian's ifdown initiates an DHCPRELEASE. Hence, if the > lease is still valid upon ifup it gets offered to dhclient again and it > enters the BOUND state with filled old_* variables. > > > The attached patch fixes this issue at least for the empty dhcp.conf > case. It does not fix more complex scenarios where information of > multiple DHCP servers is merged into one dhcp.conf. Hence, the patch > should be considered intermediate - to get it into squeeze, for example.
It's unfortuunately too late for this, sorry. I'll probably consider this for post-squeeze and will look more closely to this bug report, then eventually add your patch. Thanks for your work...
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