On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 12:20 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 10:23:33AM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > I have a little server system running dnsmasq version 2.59 under Ubuntu > > 12.04 (I have just upgraded it from Ubuntu 10.04). > > > > While booting it tries to get its network configuration (using DHCP > > presumably) from the LAN, since *it's* the DHCP server this doesn't work > > but it wastes a lot of time waiting for things to time out and produces > > various error messages on the way. > > > > How do I configure the system so that it doesn't do this? > > > Further to this the delay is cause by /etc/init/failsafe.conf, even if I > have static IP correctly configured in /etc/network/interfaces the silly > init sequence still does all the waits in /etc/init/failsafe.conf > waiting for DHCP. > > Google searches just produce the standard way to set up static IP but > no workaround for the delays.
Is the machine running NetworkManager? If so it could be a misconfiguration issue or an Upstart dependency issue. Dan _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss