[pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#605657: Bug#605657: isc-dhcp-server: The DHCP server fails to start when only alias interfaces have an address

[Michael Gilbert]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Jonathan David Amery wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  This bug is (as I discovered during a very late lenny->squeeze upgrade on
> my firewall this weekend) still an issue in squeeze; so I have had to revert
> the dhcpd (and ntp, which for no apparent reason has a "Breaks" entry for
> older dhcpds) to the lenny version in order to continue.

Some further study of the problem and potential solutions would be
useful.  Also, being a regression, this should really be brought to
the attention of upstream.  Please consider submitting a bug report to
them.

>  This is obviously not a good thing!

You have the power to raise the bug severity if you don't think its
high enough.  "important" would be reasonable.

Best wishes,
Mike