[Cialug] Xen ducp mystery

Nicolai nicolai-cialug at chocolatine.org
Tue Jul 31 12:00:24 CDT 2012


On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 09:07:03AM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> CHanged a xen machine from dhcp to static last week (which is not a simple
> process in itself), .. after finally getting it running I saw a bogus dhcp
> IP on my netbook. Chalking it up to a well-used config, I assigned one
> manually and focused on getting the system up and running.
> 
> Now, *other* machines on the network are getting bogus dhcp addresses, and
> I suspect that libvirt is still giving them out. No dhcp* daemons are
> running, however, . and the leaes messages in the logs stopped at the
> point that I had switched to static IPs; scanning with nmap does not
> identify any dhcp services being offered on the host or guest.
> 
> Question - is there any chance libvirt is giving out dhcp addresses
> without any of the usual evidence (i.e. daemon, logs, open port)?

Honestly it sounds like you need to hire some help.  Otherwise these
problems will continue without end.

Nicolai


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