[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#533233: avahi-autoipd: useless default configuration

[Simon Richter]

Package: avahi-autoipd
Version: 0.6.23-3lenny1
Severity: important

Hi,

The Debian default setup runs dhclient on an interface, which spawns
avahi-autoipd on timeout and keeps running in the background. autoipd
creates a network and a default route. On systems with multiple interfaces
(such as a laptop with wired and wireless interface), the network routes
conflict, and the first interface to time out dhcp configuration gets the
default route; when one interface comes up later, dhclient properly
configures it, but does not drop the default route.

Ideally, avahi-autoipd would not configure interfaces that are down, and
also let dhclient retry before configuring a device.

   Simon

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages avahi-autoipd depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.110        add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                       2.7-18       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdaemon0                  0.12-2lenny1 lightweight C library for daemons 

Versions of packages avahi-autoipd recommends:
ii  dhcp3-client                  3.1.1-6    DHCP client
ii  iproute                       20080725-2 networking and traffic control too

avahi-autoipd suggests no packages.

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