dchpd errors - are these to do with DNS?

[Sten Carlsen]

Sten Carlsen wrote:
>Henry Law wrote:
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>>[I'm running Smoothwall in fact; tried the Smoothwall group but got no
>>answer so I'm down to debugging the components myself...]
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>>For those who don't know, Smoothwall runs dhcpd on the local network,
>>and dnsmasq to provide DNS forwarding from the ISP.  I recently
>>changed the address range of my local network to 174.24.0.192/26 and
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Is the 17_*4*_.24.0.192/26 a typo, that should have been 
17_*2*_.24.0.192/26 ? If so pls. disregard my former answer.

>>since then I'm getting continual entries in the logs of this form:
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>>"11:04:42 dhcpd DHCPOFFER on 172.24.0.240 to 00:00:21:26:1a:7e
>>(main-atx) via eth0
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>>"11:04:42 dhcpd if IN A main-atx. rrset doesn't exist add 1800 IN A
>>main-atx. 172.24.0.240: timed out.
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>>"11:10:50 dhcpd DHCPINFORM from 172.24.0.240 via eth0: not
>>authoritative for subnet 172.24.0.192
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>>(Apologies for folding: those are three successive lines).  Research
>>suggests that, rather than being anything to do with DHCP these are
>>actually dns or ddns messages, associated with dnsmasq, but I don't
>>have ddns running.   And despite these messages DHCP and DNS continue
>>to work flawlessly!
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>>Can someone confirm or refute the hypothesis that these are
>>dns-related messages, and if so point me in the right direction to
>>resolve the problem?
>>
>>[Apologies if this is a duplicate; the original is not on my news
>>server and I've checked Google groups to confirm that it's not there
>>either]
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>>Henry Law       <><     Manchester, England 
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>Most likely your address switch is the root cause for your problems. You 
>switch from private addresses to addresses in the public range. Why do 
>you want to switch to the public address range? If you now own/rent 
>those IPs, you want to change your smoothwall to something else/or 
>readjust it.
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>The messages are originated in DHCP and point to the above mentioned 
>address problems.
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