[Gllug] DHCPd problem

Adrian McMenamin adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Thu Feb 16 23:57:41 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 23:45 +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 23:37 +0000, Russell Howe wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 09:47:09PM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > > OK, trying to do this - but how. My dhcpd init script says this (an
> > > extract obviously):
> > > 
> > > INTERFACES="eth0"
> > > 
> > > So I don't see why it is binding to ra0 and this worked fine when I had
> > > an eth0 and eth1 - it looks like a bug to me, though I confess I am not
> > > au fait enough with the Debian/Ubuntu model of these things to be sure.
> > 
> > You're running the daemon directly, bypassing the init script...
> > 
> 
> You are right that I was doing that as an example and I now know why
> that was wrong, but I was only doing that because it delivered the same
> error as the start up script and sudo /etc/services dhcpd start failed
> in just this way as well. 

Sorry I am tired. I obvious meant this...

adrian at bossclass:/etc/network$ sudo /etc/init.d/dhcp restart
Password:
Stopping DHCP server: dhcp.
Starting DHCP server: dhcpd failed to start - check syslog for
diagnostics.


and the log shows this...

adrian at bossclass:/etc$ tail -f /var/log/syslog
Feb 16 22:57:54 localhost -- MARK --
Feb 16 23:01:52 localhost kernel: [4301266.325000] smb_add_request:
request [e55f3c80, mid=36865] timed out!
Feb 16 23:01:52 localhost kernel: [4301266.325000]
smb_proc_readdir_long: error=-5, breaking
Feb 16 23:17:01 localhost /USR/SBIN/CRON[15889]: (root) CMD (
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Feb 16 23:26:49 localhost ntpd[8638]: no servers reachable
Feb 16 23:33:17 localhost ntpd[8638]: synchronized to 192.168.62.104,
stratum 3
Feb 16 23:55:55 localhost dhcpd: No subnet declaration for ra0
(192.168.62.105).
Feb 16 23:55:55 localhost dhcpd: Please write a subnet declaration in
your dhcpd.conf file for the
Feb 16 23:55:55 localhost dhcpd: network segment to which interface ra0
is attached.
Feb 16 23:55:55 localhost dhcpd: exiting.



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