Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:49:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inetd: bug or expected behaviour Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518154809.9951M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980518172333.A14723@ucb.crimea.ua>
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On Mon, 18 May 1998, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > Recently I've switched from bootp to isc-dhcp2. > They both listen on udp port 67, and I had the > standard entry for bootpd in my inetd.conf: > > bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/libexec/bootpd bootpd > > When I've finished with DHCP configuration file (dhcpd.conf), > I (as usually) commented out the string for ``bootpd'' above > in inetd.conf, killed -HUP inetd, and tried to run dhcpd. > > I was unable to run it with the following diagnostic: > ``Unable to bind, address already in use''. > > There was no bootpd process, and even when I killed inetd itself, > the dhcpd was unable to bind to the 67 port. Wait for a little bit or reboot and see if that clears it up. Most likely bootpd didn't die cleanly (or inetd) so the kernel thinks someone is still using the port. After a while it'll free the resource. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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