From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 7 7:15:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9674E37B417 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 07:15:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id HAA28754; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 07:15:24 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda28750; Wed Nov 7 07:15:18 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fA7FFE728114; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 07:15:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(10.1.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdI28069; Wed Nov 7 07:14:17 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fA7FEFO27709; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 07:14:15 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200111071514.fA7FEFO27709@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdd27688; Wed Nov 7 07:13:26 2001 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-Sender: schubert To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhclient bug? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Nov 2001 17:04:51 +1030." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 07:13:26 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , "Daniel O'Connor" wri tes: > I have noticed that the dhclient in -stable (don't know about -current) passe > s > the bound socket (to port 68) to it's children. This is a big problem when yo > u > run things out of dhclient-exit-hooks as any persistent children prevent a ne > w > instance of dhclient from binding this port :( > > I have a patch here -> http://www.dons.net.au/~darius/dhclient-coe-bug.diff > > This seems to fix the problem for me. > (And probably has nasty side effects I'm not aware of :) You probably want to submit a PR to make sure that it's included in FreeBSD. Otherwise everyone might assume that someone else will handle it. Besides, the job isn't done until the paperwork is done. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD Ministry of Management Services Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message