Charles:
Heya, welcome back. :)
IMO, since this ES3 release will be a whole-floppy release,
it makes sense to me to release it with dhclient and dnscache
pre-setup to groove together nicely. Just my two coppers.
-Scott
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> > Symptom:
> > When I boot the new package I get after:
> >
> > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> > receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down
> >
> > Then if I issue after login in
> > /etc/init.d/dhclient restart
> > it works ok
> >
> > I replaced the dhclient package with the one on Charle's site version
> > 2.0pl5 (not the one on Eigerstein Beta2 which is I think an earlier
> > version). I was able to login without any problem. Therefore the problem
> > is with the dhclient.lrp in the Beta2_test package.
>
> Yes, we need to verify the dhclient package is 2.0pl5. An older version is
> on the existing EigerStein disks.
>
> > Another problem is the dhclient-script file which must be hacked when
> > dhclient is running with dnscache. See FAQ section at
> > http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/dnscache.html
>
> Hmm...kind of a sticky problem. Since I now know more about how dhclinet
> works, what about the following:
>
> 1) Return the dhclient scripts to their original form (ie knowing nothing
> about dnscache)
>
> 2) Add a prepend statement to dhclient.conf:
> prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
>
> This *should* use the local dnscache to resolve names, falling back to the
> DNS server(s) provided by the ISP if local resolution fails, and keeps
> everything standard but the dhclient configuration file, which is where such
> things are supposed to be set.
>
> Charles Steinkuehler
> http://lrp.steinkuehler.net
> http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror)
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