[1267] in athena10
Re: Installer gets upset when it gets a 18.foo.7.bar IP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Mar 4 14:05:16 2009
Cc: Athena 10 <athena10@mit.edu>
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 14:04:18 -0500
It was pointed out to me that not everyone has Casetracker access
anymore, so a PDF is at
/mit/jdreed/release-team/568978.pdf
-Jon
On Mar 4, 2009, at 8:23 AM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> 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
