-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. The daemon log is being filled with the same stuff. the avihi-daemon was just updated and it's still doing the same thing!! Jan 15 11:16:35 debian avahi-daemon[2314]: Got SIGTERM, quitting. Jan 15 11:16:35 debian avahi-daemon[2314]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.9. Jan 15 11:16:35 debian dbus-daemon: Reloaded configuration Jan 15 11:16:45 debian dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 Jan 15 11:16:54 debian dbus-daemon: Reloaded configuration Jan 15 11:16:55 debian dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 Jan 15 11:16:55 debian dbus-daemon: Reloaded configuration Jan 15 11:16:55 debian avahi-daemon[11041]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 105) and group 'avahi' (GID 108). Jan 15 11:16:55 debian avahi-daemon[11041]: Successfully dropped root privileges. Jan 15 11:16:55 debian avahi-daemon[11041]: avahi-daemon 0.6.23 starting up. Jan 15 11:16:55 debian avahi-daemon[11041]: Successfully called chroot(). Jan 15 11:16:55 debian avahi-daemon[11041]: Successfully dropped remaining capabilities. Jan 15 11:16:55 debian avahi-daemon[11041]: No service file found in /etc/avahi/services. Jan 15 11:16:55 debian avahi-daemon[11041]: socket() failed: Address family not supported by protocol Jan 15 11:16:55 debian avahi-daemon[11041]: Failed to create IPv6 socket, proceeding in IPv4 only mode Jan 15 11:16:55 debian avahi-daemon[11041]: socket() failed: Address family not supported by protocol Jan 15 11:16:55 debian avahi-daemon[11041]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.9. Jan 15 11:16:55 debian avahi-daemon[11041]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS. Jan 15 11:16:55 debian avahi-daemon[11041]: Network interface enumeration completed. Jan 15 11:16:55 debian avahi-daemon[11041]: Registering new address record for 192.168.1.9 on eth0.IPv4. Jan 15 11:16:55 debian avahi-daemon[11041]: Registering HINFO record with values 'I686'/'LINUX'. Jan 15 11:16:56 debian avahi-daemon[11041]: Server startup complete. Host name is debian.local. Local service cookie is 3002328477. Jan 15 11:17:06 debian CRON[11612]: User account has expired Jan 15 11:17:09 debian dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 Jan 15 11:17:29 debian last message repeated 2 times Jan 15 11:18:38 debian last message repeated 5 times Jan 15 11:19:32 debian last message repeated 5 times Maybe it's reboot time..the system has been up for a couple of days. Cheers -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklvazMACgkQnQV1aTcQlJtqRQCfUqjALlwZg6Xxm6VnVPfA1vAU H1kAoIMNpASbkZqJw4C1IRIOINPfZCYL =H7en -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
