Sorry for the completely off topic post, but I have a question on computers. You know, Linux. Routing. Completely irrelevant stuff, really.
I have a box running Ubuntu 8.04. I recently put a new firewall into service, so the gateway for all other machines had to change. I changed it in the DHCP server's configuration, and manually changed most of my machines by bringing the interface down then up again. As an experiment, I left one machine alone. A week later, it still has the old gateway. It works only because I changed the old firewall's gateway to the new firewall. All of the several leases in /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth1.leases have the new router, but this machine hasn't picked up the new gateway. I'm tempted to change the routing on the old firewall so as to break the workaround, and see if that makes any difference. The next experiment would be to shut it down entirely. I thought DHCP clients were supposed to pick up changes like this; am I wrong? dhcp3-client-3.0.6.dfsg-1ubuntu9--i386 dhcp3-common-3.0.6.dfsg-1ubuntu9--i386 -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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