Re: DHCP on installation of June 11 snapshot.

[Jan Johansson <janj+openbsd@wenf.org>]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:28:50AM -0400, Jesse Kempf wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:25:28 +0200 Jan Johansson
><janj+openbsd@wenf.org> wrote: <snip>
>> Using DHCP to configure the wi0 interface I didn't get domain
>> or nameservers. I did get default gateway.
><snip>
>> I guess something broke with the new dhclient-script.
>
>I've seen the same issue. The problem is that /etc/dhclient.conf
>requests subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers, domain-name,
>domain-name-servers, and host-name. It only requires
>subnet-mask. (look in the config file).  It took me a little
>while to realise that this was the problem. For me, it would
>randomly not pick up DNS servers or routers.  Modifying
>dhclient.conf will either fix the problem with no work-around,
>or make things annoying, depending upon your dhcp server's
>configuration.

That is not the issue I had. My issue was/is that the install
script does not pickup the information (dhclient got the
information and wrote a /etc/resolv.conf).

I have debuged this togheter with krw@ and I just sent a test
result back to him.