Bug 21285
| Summary: | DHCPD configuration tool does not configure properly. | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Rishi Gangoly <rishi> |
| Component: | linuxconf | Assignee: | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:47:50 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I'd like add some more clarifications to this bug that I reported. The bug is with linuxconf*rpm and not dhcpd*rpm Also I noticed another thing. Since the DHCP2DNS script reads the dhcpd.leases file and converts them into entries in the DNS table in /var/named/whatever.com, certain things need to be kept in mind. 1. named (bind) does not accept special characters like "_" (underscore) etc. If the HOSTNAME in the dhcpd.leases table has a host with such a name then while doing a sync between the two tables, it corrupts the integrity of the DNS table. Sometimes named does not function properly because of invalid entires. 2. The other problem we noticed is that if a HOSTNAME has Upper and Lower case, then named goes for a toss too. There was this guy who had the computer name called KRISHNANs with the 's' at the end in lower case. The DNS table got this entry too. and because of that named stopped working correctly.... and my mail server (sendmail) stopped working too. Weird but that's what happened. Suggestion: when doint the sync, convert all HOSTNAMES from dhcpd.leases to the DNS table into lower case. Convert all "_" (underscores) to "-" (hyphens) dhcp.leases problem fixed. reassigning to linuxconf for the rest. Apologies for the unresponsiveness of the previous dhcp packager... Closing because we don't ship linuxconf anymore Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
DHCPD in linuxconf does not configure properly. 1. it gives an error saying that /var/state/dhcp/dhcpd.leases file does not exist.... It could do a 'touch /var/state/dhcp/dhcpd.leases to while it creates a dhcp server. 2. if the Update DNS [x] option is checked from the cron it runs a script dhcp2dns.sh . this file basically assumes that the dhcpd.leases table is located in /etc/dhcpd.leases when actually the location of the file itself has changed in the new dhcpd*rpm The hack I use is create a softlink for /etc/dhcpd.leases to point -> to /var/state/dhcp/dhcpd.leases 3. Lastly, this dhcp2dns.sh script keeps generating an output 'reload initiated' every 5 minutes and fills up the crontab. Is this information really required? Location for the file is /usr/lib/linuxconf/lib/dhcp2dns.sh Regards Rishi