Package: isc-dhcp-client
Version: 4.3.5~b1-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
This behavior comes when DHCP server goes down/gets irresponsible.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
On headless NAS station I have had lease stanza in dhclient.conf, generated
by uncommenting default example comming with the package and only adjusting
values I understood exactly (like IP address, mask, router address etc. I
left
renew, expire and so times intact as I expected they are set in past
intentionally
(e.g. to provoke processing).
* What was the outcome of this action?
After DHCP down NAS got irresponsive even on the preconfigured (fallback) ip
address.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Finally I took machine out of server room, attached keyboard and monitor and
found out
it really does not configure ip address from lease stanza.
Using google from other comp I finally found the old Debian bug report
#100886.
Indeed, changing the times to future (even as far as 2020) worked like a
charm.
As the original bug report #100886 even contains patch proposal and it's
only "sin"
is that it was reported against version 2.x while we hav 4.x now (but still
containing
the same bug), I ask politely to review and reconsider that bugreport and
apply
patch (maybe bit adapted to version 4.x) into package code.
Thank you in advance.
NOTE: I am reporting from my desktop comp, so the bellow technical details
are NOT
related to the machine in question. However there is some 2 months old
Debian 8
instalation there.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client depends on:
ii debianutils 4.8
ii iproute2 4.8.0-1
ii libc6 2.24-5
ii libdns-export162 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-10.1
ii libisc-export160 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-10.1
Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client recommends:
ii isc-dhcp-common 4.3.5~b1-1
Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client suggests:
pn avahi-autoipd <none>
pn isc-dhcp-client-ddns <none>
pn resolvconf <none>
-- no debconf information
