[CentOS] CentOS DHCP Server

[Kemp, Larry]

Yep. Dnsmasq was parked on 67. Gonna have to "yum remove" him. Big thanks guys.

LK

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From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Ron Loftin
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 4:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS DHCP Server


On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 16:03 -0500, Kemp, Larry wrote:
> CentOS Community,
> 
> I need help with a CentOS DHCP server.
> 
> I have a simple 32bit CentOS 5.3 server running on an Intel chip server in a lab environment with two NIC's. 
> 
> Interfaces:
> eth0 - Is connected to the Internet using a static public IP address.
> eth1 - Is connected to a private 10.1.1.0/24 LAN with no other access to the web. 
> 	 Runs DHCP to the internal client systems.
>        Is the default gateway for all LAN traffic to the Internet.
>        Runs iptables as the firewall between the LAN and the Internet.
> 
> On eth1 DHCP was running with no problems for some time. This lab system sat for months untouched and then we revisited this product/project only to find that DHCP would not start. It gave us this following error:
> 
> 	Failed to start dhcpd : 
> 	Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server V3.1.3
> 	Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
> 	All rights reserved.
> 	For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
> 	Wrote 0 leases to leases file.
> 	Listening on LPF/eth1/00:50:ba:c0:43:c7/10.1.1/24
> 	Sending on   LPF/eth1/00:50:ba:c0:43:c7/10.1.1/24
> 	Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already in use
> 	Please make sure there is no other dhcp server
> 	running and that there's no entry for dhcp or
> 	bootp in /etc/inetd.conf.   Also make sure you
> 	are not running HP JetAdmin software, which
> 	includes a bootp server.   
> 
> There is no other DHCP server on this LAN or on the public /30 that eth0 connects to (not that eth0 would impact my internal LAN). 
> 

I'm just guessing here, but I think that this message is telling you
that something else is bound to that interface on port 67 ( DHCP server
port ) which occasionally can happen by chance.

Try lsof like this ( as root, of course ):

lsof -i -Pn | grep :67

This should show you what has grabbed port 67 and it may be something
you can stop and restart to get a different ( random ) port assignment.

Like I said, this is just a guess.

> I saw there were ofcourse many systems updates for CentOS and thought that a might resolve. It did not.
> 
> I then downloaded many versions of ISC's DHCP and compile and tried each of them from source code. This problems still exists. I have tried even the very simplest of dhcp.conf files and DHCP will still not start. Have I found a bug in the ISC DHCP code? Unlikely. I hope that one of you has run into this before and can help me out. Thanks greatly in advance.       
> 
> Respectfully,
> 
> Larry Kemp
> Network Engineer
> U.S. Metropolitan Telecom, LLC
> Bonita Springs FL USA
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