From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 15:07:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63F1116A4CE for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 15:07:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from vsmtp3.tin.it (vsmtp3.tin.it [212.216.176.223]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15FA243D55 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 15:07:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from theglide@tiscali.it) Received: from tiscali.it (80.180.45.115) by vsmtp3.tin.it (7.0.019) (authenticated as luca_gerli@virgilio.it) id 3FF1871600142777; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 00:07:03 +0100 Message-ID: <3FFDE28C.4050108@tiscali.it> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 00:06:52 +0100 From: Luca Gerli User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Lambert References: <20040108204617.GA902@www.lambertfam.org> <20040108214238.489255D04@ptavv.es.net> <20040108215409.GB902@www.lambertfam.org> In-Reply-To: <20040108215409.GB902@www.lambertfam.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 5.2 RC2 DHCP/resolv.conf install problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 23:07:09 -0000 Scott's problem happened to me too (DHCP is a Zyxel Prestige). I just touched the /etc/resolv.conf and it all worked. Luca. Scott Lambert wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:42:38PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >>>Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 15:46:17 -0500 >>>From: Scott Lambert >>>Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org >>> >>>I've had this happen a couple of times over the past mumble months. But >>>I don't install 5.x often enough and thought I was just seeing a fluke >>>in the way my system installed. Seeing it for third time is just too >>>many flukes. >>> >>>Last night I installed 5.2 RC2 on my shiny new Compaq Presario 2195US. >>>When it rebooted the first time, DHCP gave me my IP address and default >>>route but resolv.conf did not exist. To fix, I touched /etc/resolv.conf >>>and restarted dhclient. >>> >>>My DHCP server is a Linksys WAP/Router/4-port switch, but I don't think >>>the DHCP server is material to the issue. >> >>I was seeing the same thing last November when I was traveling. It only >>happened in my hotel room on the broadband connection. >> >>My suspicion is that the DHCP server is not providing a DNS server and >>that it is simply deleting the resolv.conf instead of leaving the >>existing one. >> >>You might want to try doing a capture of traffic to the bootps port on >>your system and see if that is what is happening. > > > I've only had this happen on the first boot; but I suppose I have a > populated resolv.conf after that, don't I? I'll have to dig some more. > > Hmm, was one of these instances at work? I'll have to check both > places. > > Thanks. >