[svlug] DHCPD error

ericv ericv at cruzio.com
Mon Jan 29 17:49:47 PST 2007


BINGO.

I had a brainphardt that you had to call out the subnets separately (range and
zonefiles being the magic, not subnet declarations).

Thanks!

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:09:53 -0800, Jeremy Hunt wrote
> On Jan 29, 2007, at 4:44 PM, ericv wrote:
> 
> >
> > I have a /23 network, 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.1.0/24.
> >
> > My dhcpd.conf is:
> >
> > =====
> >
> ...
> 
> >
> > subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> > ddns-rev-domainname "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa";
> >
> 
> ...
> 
> > subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> > option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> > option routers 192.168.0.1;
> > }
> > =====
> >
> > dhcpd starts, but gives no leases.  Syslog reveals:
> >
> > =====
> > dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:80:77:37:a8:02 via eth0: network  
> > 192.168.0.0/24:
> > no free leases
> > =====
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> 
> It looks like you just need to remove the second subnet declaration  
> and fix the first one by changing the first line to:
> 
> subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.254.0 {
> 
> and then changing the subnet-mask option to 255.255.254.0;
> 
> all other options can pretty much stay the same.
> 
> This will allow DHCPD to startup since it will see a declaration for 
>  it's own subnet 192.168.0/24 I'm guessing.
> 
> -Jeremy
> 
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