Sometime between 16:00 and 16:10 today, my firewall lost connectivity
with the outside world. My logs show the following:

Oct 29 15:50:07 ducky DYNDNS[92758]: start
Oct 29 15:50:08 ducky DYNDNS[92759]: stopped
Oct 29 16:00:08 ducky DYNDNS[92788]: start
Oct 29 16:00:09 ducky DYNDNS[92789]: stopped
Oct 29 16:10:07 ducky DYNDNS[92828]: start
Oct 29 16:10:08 ducky DYNDNS[92829]: The IP Address is unassigned
- 0.0.0.0
Oct 29 16:10:08 ducky DYNDNS[92830]: stopped
Oct 29 16:20:07 ducky DYNDNS[92842]: start
Oct 29 16:20:07 ducky DYNDNS[92843]: The IP Address is unassigned
- 0.0.0.0
Oct 29 16:20:08 ducky DYNDNS[92844]: stopped
Oct 29 16:30:07 ducky DYNDNS[92858]: start
Oct 29 16:31:30 ducky DYNDNS[92866]: The IP Address has changed
to 210.55.152.157
Oct 29 16:31:30 ducky DYNDNS[92868]: but the update script has
failed. Details follow.
Oct 29 16:31:31 ducky DYNDNS[92871]: stopped
Oct 29 16:40:07 ducky DYNDNS[92913]: start
Oct 29 16:40:08 ducky DYNDNS[92914]: The IP Address is unassigned
- 0.0.0.0
Oct 29 16:40:08 ducky DYNDNS[92915]: stopped

The 0.0.0.0 continues until:

Oct 29 22:50:07 ducky DYNDNS[93886]: start
Oct 29 22:50:33 ducky DYNDNS[93893]: The IP Address has changed
to 210.55.152.18
Oct 29 22:50:34 ducky DYNDNS[93897]: stopped

At about 22:44 I cycled the power on the M10. Before I did that, I saved
the M10 logs to http://www.dvl-software.com/show+log+all.html in the
hopes that someone could tell why the M10 did not reacquire an IP
address. I think we can all agree that obtaining an IP address is a
highly desirable feature. Why didn't the M10 obtain an IP address?

If there's any other information which I can provide to help debug this
situation, please let me know.

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Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited
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