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 <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. >Received on Thu Jan 08 2004 - 14:07:09 UTC
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