[1263] in athena10
Installer gets upset when it gets a 18.foo.7.bar IP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Mar 4 08:24:35 2009
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Athena 10 <athena10@mit.edu>
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Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 08:23:31 -0500
The installer gets upset (specifically, the DHCP autoconfiguration
part) when it gets handed an IP without a hostname attached. (in this
case 18.63.7.36) This is a problem that's been plaguing us for years:
https://casetracker.mit.edu/caset/findcasecon.do?case_id=568978
(yes, that's a casetracker link)
I think most of the dorm networks have had this problem fixed by now,
but apparently not all networks.
I assume this is a non-critical failure, since it doesn't really need
a hostname per se during the installation, but it would be nice if a)
DHCP only handed out IPs that had hostnames, or b) the Installer said
something like "This is not a serious problem for installation,
but...". I'm not sure which is easier to fix.
-Jon
