Re: 5.2 RC2 DHCP/resolv.conf install problem

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 <lambert_at_lambertfam.org>
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-current_at_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.

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Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
lambert_at_lambertfam.org