prpr
Well-Known Member
One of my boxes crashed yesterday afternoon (or so I thought) i.e. it dropped off network monitoring, so I rebooted it.
This morning it did the same thing but I hadn't rebooted it, and as I was investigating something else, I had cause to add the 192.0.2.0/24 subnet to my router.
I tried pinging and then telnetting to 192.0.2.100 (the default Humax IP address for our boxes) and was amazed to find I connected not to the thing I was trying to investigate but to my "crashed" box which wasn't crashed at all - it had just changed its IP address to the default.
After poking around various log files and my network monitoring & router logs, it seems that this was just spontaneous and nothing to do with DHCP lease renewal (which happened around 3 hours earlier) as I first suspected.
I'm at a bit of a loss as to how this can just happen, but at least I now have another thing to look for when it happens again (this machine seems to "crash" every few days for whatever reason).
@/df any thoughts?
This morning it did the same thing but I hadn't rebooted it, and as I was investigating something else, I had cause to add the 192.0.2.0/24 subnet to my router.
I tried pinging and then telnetting to 192.0.2.100 (the default Humax IP address for our boxes) and was amazed to find I connected not to the thing I was trying to investigate but to my "crashed" box which wasn't crashed at all - it had just changed its IP address to the default.
After poking around various log files and my network monitoring & router logs, it seems that this was just spontaneous and nothing to do with DHCP lease renewal (which happened around 3 hours earlier) as I first suspected.
I'm at a bit of a loss as to how this can just happen, but at least I now have another thing to look for when it happens again (this machine seems to "crash" every few days for whatever reason).
@/df any thoughts?