[gentoo-user] remove DHCPCD/djbdns -- and now, manual setup fails...

[gentoo-user] remove DHCPCD/djbdns -- and now, manual setup fails...

[Michael Higgins]

Hello, list --

I have a server that had been running dhcpcd to get it's IP address.

I don't want to do like this anymore, so I removed the package and attempted
to configure the interface manually.

However, somewhere in my configs dhcp client is still called. How do I fix
this?

Also, I'd tried installing and configuring djbdns. 

I can't get the nameservers in resolv.conf to give me dns, even though I can
ping them.

And, starting sshd calls dhcp and kills the eth0 device.

How can I fix this? Any takers?

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Michael Higgins


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[solved] RE: [gentoo-user] remove DHCPCD/djbdns -- and now, manual setup fails...

[Michael Higgins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Higgins [mailto:mhiggins@banfieldgroup.com] 
> 
> Hello, list --
> 
> I have a server that had been running dhcpcd to get it's IP address.
> 
> I don't want to do like this anymore, so I removed the 
> package and attempted to configure the interface manually.
> 
> However, somewhere in my configs dhcp client is still called. 
> How do I fix this?
> 
> Also, I'd tried installing and configuring djbdns. 
> 
> I can't get the nameservers in resolv.conf to give me dns, 
> even though I can ping them.
> 
> And, starting sshd calls dhcp and kills the eth0 device.
> 
> How can I fix this? Any takers?
> 
> --
> Michael Higgins

[ solved ] - found offending line in /etc/conf.d/net. Can ssh into machine.

Still no DNS joy. I'll try getting a clue on #gentoo, I guess.

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Michael Higgins


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Re: [gentoo-user] remove DHCPCD/djbdns -- and now, manual setup fails...

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:34:27 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote:

> I have a server that had been running dhcpcd to get it's IP address.
> 
> I don't want to do like this anymore, so I removed the package and
> attempted to configure the interface manually.

How? We can't guess at what changes you made.

> However, somewhere in my configs dhcp client is still called. How do I
> fix this?

By posting the configs here, particularly /etc/conf.d/net. We have to see
the config file to be able to tell what's wrong with it.


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RE: [gentoo-user] remove DHCPCD/djbdns -- and now, manual setup fails...

[Michael Higgins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:neil@digimed.co.uk] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:40 PM

> 
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:34:27 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote:
> 
> > I have a server that had been running dhcpcd to get it's IP address.
> > 
> > I don't want to do like this anymore, so I removed the package and 
> > attempted to configure the interface manually.
> 
> How? We can't guess at what changes you made.
> 
> > However, somewhere in my configs dhcp client is still 
> called. How do I 
> > fix this?
> 
> By posting the configs here, particularly /etc/conf.d/net. We 
> have to see the config file to be able to tell what's wrong with it.

(As I mentioned in different post, I found the offending line in conf.d/net
and fixed. Or, thought I did...)

Here is /etc/conf.d/net:


config_eth0=( "192.168.100.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.100.255" )
routes_eth0=( "default via 192.168.100.1" )

/etc/nsswitch.conf:

passwd:      compat
shadow:      compat
group:       compat

# passwd:    db files nis
# shadow:    db files nis
# group:     db files nis

hosts:       files dns
networks:    files dns

services:    db files
protocols:   db files
rpc:         db files
ethers:      db files
netmasks:    files
netgroup:    files
bootparams:  files

automount:   files
aliases:     files

/etc/hosts:


127.0.0.1       localhost
::1     localhost

/etc/resolv.conf:

nameserver 209.116.241.10
nameserver 216.99.225.31
nameserver 216.99.233.253

. . .

The problem is that I installed djbdns and ran the scripts to set it up. 

It didn't work to cache and serve dns queries, so I gave up. But unmerging
it left me with no DNS at all.

I was hoping to find out what these scripts overwrote that's hijacking my
DNS requests.

Anyway, if anyone on the list has removed djbdns and re-configured access
directly to their ISP's nameservers, I'd like to know if it was effortless,
or was there something else required.

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Michael Higgins


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