On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> From: "Daniel Pittman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > > i'm using dhcpcd, so i don't know whether there is something
>> > > analogous i can do.
[...]
>> > Well, I could see some advantages in there being a standard
>> > shell-script provided that did relevant things when the address of
>> > the machine changed. Maybe I should clean up my scripts and put
>> > them up somewhere...
>>
>> that would be appreciated. now if those scripts were to make it into
>> a debian package...
>
> I know *I'd* certainly appreciate seeing 'em. It's so annoying to
> watch an ssh link politely remain "alive" (but useless) awaiting a
> link that can never return because the DHCP lease died and I get
> reassigned.
Ah, now *that* is a problem that cannot be solved so easily. The problem
that can be fixed by restarting services is the issue of daemons that
listen to a local TCP/UDP port.
Sessions already in progress are a lost cause, unfortunately.
Daniel
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