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isc-dhcp package

  1. Bug #1189571
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1189571

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Ben Howard (darkmuggle-deactivatedaccount) wrote : Re: Large lease times cause dhclient to die

Confirmed that the RH fix works on Windows Azure:

$ sudo restart networking
$ cat /var/log/upstart/networking.log
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:15:5d:52:cd:db
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:15:5d:52:cd:db
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST of 100.86.20.3 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 (xid=0x30df9c2d)
DHCPACK of 100.86.20.3 from 100.86.20.1
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Unable to set up timer: out of range
Failed to bring up eth0.
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.4
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For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:15:5d:52:cd:db
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:15:5d:52:cd:db
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST of 100.86.20.3 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 (xid=0x39ff7987)
DHCPREQUEST of 100.86.20.3 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 (xid=0x39ff7987)
DHCPACK of 100.86.20.3 from 100.86.20.1
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
bound to 100.86.20.3 -- renewal in 4294967295 seconds.
ssh stop/waiting
ssh start/running, process 2604

$ ps aux | grep dhc
root 2569 0.0 0.1 10232 2416 ? Ss 18:12 0:00 dhclient -1 -v -pf /run/dhclient.eth0.pid -lf /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.eth0.leases eth0