Okay, I have an odd problem.
I normally install SL using a net-install boot which then fetches a
kickstart file from our local webserver. Lately, however, trying to
fetch the kickstart file has been failing.
Here is what seems to be the issue:
We have a local /23 subnet (ie netmask 255.255.254.0) and some of our
DHCP addresses are in the high half. Sometimes when the net-install
boots and does a DHCP setup for the initial network connection, it gets
one of these high-half addresses. Eg, from the F4 screen:
INFO NetworkManager: <info> address XXX.XX.189.41
INFO NetworkManager: <info> prefix 23 (255.255.254.0)
INFO NetworkManager: <info> gateway XXX.XX.188.1
INFO NetworkManager: <info> nameserver 'YYY.YY.yy.yy'
INFO NetworkManager: <info> nameserver 'YYY.YY.zz.zz'
So far, so good. However, trying to fetch the kickstart file fails.
Looking on the F3 screen I see:
HH:MM:SS.sss ERROR : failed to retrieve http://.....: Couldn't
resolve host name
So it's not properly accessing the nameservers.
However, sometimes it gets a low-half ip (XXX.XX.188.xx) and then it
works properly.
It sounds like the NetworkManger isn't properly setting up routing for
the extra-wide subnet, but I have no way to check further. (Note, other
machines w/ high-half ip's work fine, so it's not problems w/ the local
network.)
Anyone have any ideas, or know if this is an existing, known bug?
- WRSomsky
