dhclient wedged

Will Froning wfroning at angui.sh
Fri Jan 27 06:33:16 PST 2006


Kelly,

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Kelly D. Grills wrote:
=>On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 02:52:44AM -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
=>> 
=>> I reported this problem a few OS versions back... pre-6.  I'm on 
=>> FreeBSD-6-STABLE, and I've found the dhclient once again "wedged" in a 
=>> mode that was eating a lot of CPU.  
=>> 
=>> The solution is to kill it, and restart.
=>> 
=>> I'm on Comcast's network, so I don't really know if their DHCP server is 
=>> doing something that FreeBSD's stock dhclient doesn't like; however, I 
=>> wonder if someone else has noticed this problem, etc.
=>> 
=>Yes, I've also had the same problem (6.0-RELEASE), on Comcast also.
=>I installed isc-dhcp3-client-3.0.3_1 from ports and haven't had a 
=>problem since. (crossing fingers ;=)

not sure if it's the same problem for you, but Comcast in my area 
supplies a bad entry for DNS Suffix/Search order

((hsd1.ca.comcast.net)(hsd2.ca.comcast.net))

And my little netgear router doesn't like that entry and _seems_ to 
only supply "hsd1.ca.comcast.net))" via dhcp.  My Mac and Winbloze 
boxes do fine, but FBSD rejects the dhoffer unless isc's dhclient is 
used.  I haven't tried plugging directly into the Comcast router, so I 
don't know if FBSD will accept the original offer with parens...

Thanks,
Will

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Will Froning
Unix Sys. Admin.
wfroning at angui.sh


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