Hi David! what does 'route -an' give you? what does 'cat /etc/resolv.conf' give you? you are getting an ip, obviously, so maybe try pinging your dhcp-server?
regs, klaus * David Ballantyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-21 16:31: > From: David Ballantyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: problems with dhclient after upgrade to sarge > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > Last night I upgraded my woody system to Sarge, and my dhclient broke. > Before the upgrade I was using the package that came with woody > (dhcp3-client 3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.2) and it worked 'out of the box'. That is, > all I had to do was type /sbin/dhclient and I was fine. After the upgrade, > dhcp3-client 3.0+3.0.1rc13-1 was installed, and nothing was working. > > The first problem encountered following the upgrade was, after typing > /sbin/dhclient as root, I got messages such as 'receive_packet Network is > down' and 'send packet: network is down', and of course it didn't > configure. After some Google searches (on another computer), it looked > like the problem was that the network was not being brought up: > once I typed 'ifconfig eth0 up' and re-ran /sbin/dhclient it looked like > it worked. > > But it didn't. Although the messages dhclient is putting to the screen > look like normal messages (i.e., it gets bound to an address and a renewal > time from the server) I can't connect to the internet. If a try to ssh > into a machine I get a 'Temporary failure in name resolution' error. > Furthmore, if I run 'ifconfig' it lists eth0 and lo as normal, but there > is no internet address assigned to eth0 even though it looks like dhclient > was sent one. It does say 'UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST', but no 'inet > addr'. > > I'm at a loss for ideas right now. As I said earlier, it worked trivially > under woody, so I know it is not a problem with any of the kernel > configurations or drivers (as those were not updated in my transition to > Sarge). I would appreciate any help or guidance on this matter. > > Please respond directly to me, as I am not subscribed to the mailing > lists. > > Thanks in advance, > > David > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > David R. Ballantyne Ph: 416-978-1775 > Canadian Institute for > Theoretical Astrophysics Fax: 416-978-3921 > University of Toronto, > 60 St. George Street, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Toronto, Ontario > Canada M5S 3H8 Web: http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~ballanty/ > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
