Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:25:47 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Will Froning <wfroning@angui.sh> Cc: "Kelly D. Grills" <kdgrills@the-grills.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient wedged Message-ID: <20060127162547.GA20549@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060127062215.R33584@home.angui.sh> References: <43D339CC.3020204@forrie.com> <20060122155131.GA823@the-grills.com> <20060127062215.R33584@home.angui.sh>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 06:30:36AM -0800, Will Froning wrote: > 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)) I must say that's a really creative one. I wonder if it even works for Windows. > 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... If you upgrade to 6.0-STABLE the offer won't be rejected, it will just delete the invalid entry. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD2kmKXY6L6fI4GtQRApPVAKDGL2OlQEwzcWi3iVeIYC+b5tzklQCgnWyx IxifzLX6L4xbR5zGkMG3o+s= =e1Vz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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