[Bug 1633619] Re: dhclient -1 exits 0 when no lease found

Steve, Good sleuthing. Bug 974284 has good info in it. This is definitely tricky. I think we have the following cases to consider and may be at odds. a.) dhclient -1 should exit failure as documented. b.) we need a reliable point in boot where all static networking is configured. c.) Ill timed

[Bug 1633619] Re: dhclient -1 exits 0 when no lease found

Here is the behavior on either 14.04 or 16.04: # dhclient -1 -v virbr0 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.4 Copyright 2004-2012 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/virbr0/52:54:00:05:e1:f3 Sending

[Bug 1633619] Re: dhclient -1 exits 0 when no lease found

According to the bzr history in lp:ubuntu/wily/isc-dhcp, this patch is related to bug #974284: committer: Stéphane Graber branch nick: isc-dhcp timestamp: Wed 2012-09-12 17:30:23 -0400 message: Set onetry = 0 early enough to actually work. (LP: #974284) And Scott, you

[Bug 1633619] Re: dhclient -1 exits 0 when no lease found

** Changed in: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1633619 Title:

[Bug 1633619] Re: dhclient -1 exits 0 when no lease found

for reference, you can make it fail faster like this in /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf timeout 3; retry 3; #reboot 10; select-timeout 5; initial-interval 1; -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.