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--- Begin Message ---Package: zeroconf Version: 0.6.1-1 Severity: serious I just discovered that I have zeroconf on my system. I didn't ask for it; it came in at the bottom of a dependency chain starting with rhythmbox. The way I discoverd it was this: when I booted up my computer, I had no network connectivity. At all. A brief investigation lead me to this fact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo ifup wlan0 dhcpcd.exe: interface wlan0 has been configured with old IP=192.168.0.101 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ifconfig wlan0 wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:92:31:AA inet addr:169.254.66.229 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.0.0 It seems that the zeroconf if-up.d script likes to wipe out existing settings and replace them with a random private IP address. This is utterly unacceptable, doubly so since zeroconf is a dependency of other packages. As it appears from the package description that this is what zeroconf is intended to do, it should be disabled by default, or at least not activated unless the interface it's attached to has no IP address. Daniel -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages zeroconf depends on: ii ifupdown 0.6.7 high level tools to configure netw ii iproute 20051007-3 Professional tools to control the ii libc6 2.3.5-12.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an zeroconf recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---The original reporter says: "It seems that the zeroconf if-up.d script likes to wipe out existing settings and replace them with a random private IP address." This isn't the case. The problem is the reporter is using 'ifconfig' to look at their settings which is broken. There isn't anything I can do to fix it -- it has been abandoned upstream and this defect is noted in Debian bug #324306 and #359676. However the original reporter has uncovered two other potential problems (cloned from this bug): - #360607: incorrect broadcast address [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ifconfig wlan0 wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:92:31:AA inet addr:169.254.66.229 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.0.0 ^^^^^^ should be:169.254.255.255 - #360608: possible samba interaction It is likely that the above bug might be causing this but for completeness sake I am tracking it seperately. Since the original report is essentially about ifconfig and I've pulled out the useful information into two other reports, I'm closing this bug report. If the original reporter has anything to add -- they should feel free to reopen this report as required. Thanks, Anand -- `When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives' -- Robert A Heinlein, "If this goes on --"
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