commit 144f35ee7a5b302ac2c0e017c00f0269f413bc7a parent fd8e58fa518ac1e9960b75390389afb6e7b3a6e9 Author: Chris Bracken <chris@bracken.jp> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 14:27:42 -0700 OpenBSD: add note about dhclient Diffstat:
| M | openbsd_install.md | | | 19 | +++++++++++++++++++ |
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diff --git a/openbsd_install.md b/openbsd_install.md @@ -51,6 +51,25 @@ Restart sshd: kill -HUP `cat /var/run/sshd.pid` +If we're using DHCP to configure the network interface, dhclient +requires a config file, but an empty file is sufficient. Without this, +it appears to pick up a 6 month-long lease by default. One symptom of +this is that routers will typically stop resolving the hostname (which +is provided to the router in the DHCP lease request) if the device +doesn't renew the lease before it's up: + + touch /etc/dhclient.conf + +I generally leave a comment in the file along these lines: + + # This file is required by the ISC DHCP client. + # See ``man 5 dhclient.conf'' for details. + # + # In most cases an empty file is sufficient for most people as the + # defaults are usually fine. + # + # See /etc/examples/dhclient.conf + Configure basics ----------------