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I had a failure of my dhcp server over the weekend. After restarting dhcp
services, I find that none of my Linux machines could recover their
IPs without restarting their network service even after the lease time
has elapsed. I use "static" dhcp so a machine's IP/DNS is really fixed.
The dhcp service has been running now for a week and I'm still running into
the stand-alone Linux box that has not recovered its IP. The box is
running. dhclient is running. ifconfig shows that the eth0 device is
initialized; it just lacks its IP. All the Windows boxes survived the dhcp
outage.
It appears that dhclient does not work properly on Linux. I assumed that
dhclient would relinquish the IP after the lease time, then keep trying to
request a renewal. But, apparently, it doesn't. It appears to have given
up
Ideas, anyone?
Ken
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