[Bug 340383] [NEW] dhcpd sends 127.0.1.1 as DNS server

Mathias Gug mathiaz at ubuntu.com
Tue Mar 10 13:43:49 GMT 2009


On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 09:01:48AM -0000, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> Ubuntu configures sets the hostname in /etc/hosts and assigns it to
> 127.0.1.1:
> 
> 127.0.0.1     localhost
> 127.0.1.1     server.example.com server
> 
> The dhcpd server picks this up and sends it as primary DNS server (DHCP and DNS are on the same machine here) to dhcp clients (see attached dhcpdump output).
> Assigning the wrong DNS server leads to timeouts on Mac and Linux (Unix) clients, but it does not seem to affect Windows systems.
> 

Could you post /etc/dhcpd.conf and /etc/resolv.conf from the system
running the dhcpd server?

  status incomplete

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Mathias Gug
Ubuntu Developer  http://www.ubuntu.com


** Changed in: dhcp3 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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dhcpd sends 127.0.1.1 as DNS server
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