dhcpd (reprise)

[Gary Kline]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 11:20:29AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Gary Kline <kline at magnesium.net> writes:
> 
> > 	I don't know if my mail from last night (Friday, localtime)
> > 	got thru or not.  Part of sendmail is bolloxed too...  I
> > 	see my /var/log/maillog filling up, but unable to resolve
> > 	mail from freebsd.org.  Or anywhere.
> > 
> > 	Anyhow, last night thngs on my primary server broke.  I can
> > 	ping, I can use mozilla, wshatever, but only from 
> > 	ns1.thought.org.  
> > 
> > 	I fixed the new bind9 paths and re-exec'd those.  But for
> > 	unknown reasons, dhcpd fails to hand out new leases.  Does
> > 	anybody have any ideas howto debug this?  (I've tried some
> > 	people here on the Seattle list, but they're unavailable.)
> > 
> > 	So: nutshell, looks like my /etc/namedb/* stuff is okay.
> > 	--Something wrong with sendmail.--  And dhcp* quit working.
> > 	Any real, hardcore system admins out there who can help me??
> 
> If sendmail is still failing to resolve names, then it sounds like
> your named setup is *not* okay.  But you'd have to show us what the
> symptoms are precisely in order for us to help figure it out.
> 
> For dhcpd, the answers are either in the dhcpd logs or could be if you
> raised the verbosity.  I've been using the ISC server lately in a
> development testbed, and I use the '-d' option to get the log
> information sent directly to my terminal.  
>  "dhcpd -d -cf /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.debug.conf"

	The sendmail problem that were printed to stderr went away
	after I created a new 5.3 sendmail.cf; with dhcpd problems,
	mail can't get to my private servers so I have it re-routed
	to ns1.thought.org.

	I'll add the -d flag to my rc.conf; are you using the latest
	version of the dhcp-server from ISC or something other?
	I looked for a 'debug' flag on the man page and didn't see it.
	What should I loook for in th logfile?  or will it be 
	obvious :-)

	thank,

	gary



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