On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 09:14:19AM -0600, Hans Fugal wrote: > Did you restart the dhcp server?
Yes. > Check the leases and see if you've waited long enough. Yes. default-lease-time 43200; # 12 hours max-lease-time 86400; # 24 hours I waited about 5 days. I also watched the client leases file, and all of the leases there showed the new "routers" entry. > A dhcp client should reacquire when the lease runs out. But if the > dhcp client died, or was run in a one-time-only mode, it wouldn't > know to do that and you'd have the same setup until you rebooted or > started the client anew. The client daemon has been running since before I started the experiment. > > Charles Curley wrote: >> 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 >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> /* >> PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net >> Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug >> Don't fear the penguin. >> */ > > > -- > Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net > > There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the > right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. > -- Johann Sebastian Bach > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ -- 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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