DHCP died after crash
This is very odd - I had the system crash on me last night (OS X 10.1.3), and ever since the crash, DHCP will not work on this machine.
It does not matter if I restart in OS 9 or OS X - still does not work. I even tried trashing the TCP/IP and open transport preferences in 9 and restarting - still won't work.
It is not the line or the dhcp server (I can plug another mac in and it works fine), I doubt it is the network card (Appletalk still works fine, as does manually setting an IP address, both in 9 and X).
I am desperately trying to avoid having to reinstall OS X, as I just spent several days getting everything loaded and set up like I like it.
Any suggestions? This is baffling
Fish
It does not matter if I restart in OS 9 or OS X - still does not work. I even tried trashing the TCP/IP and open transport preferences in 9 and restarting - still won't work.
It is not the line or the dhcp server (I can plug another mac in and it works fine), I doubt it is the network card (Appletalk still works fine, as does manually setting an IP address, both in 9 and X).
I am desperately trying to avoid having to reinstall OS X, as I just spent several days getting everything loaded and set up like I like it.
Any suggestions? This is baffling
Fish
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anyway: for him the solution was specifying a search domain (OSX: System Preferences->Network->Search Domains (optional); OS9: control panels->TCP/IP->Search Domains). You can find out what the address of the search domain is from your ISP (or your work's/school's IT department). I haven't tried them, but you can try apple.com or earthlink.net (but those might be specific to earthlink users).
-gd
Man - and to think I was in my office for hours after work last night working on this
Thanks again - odd that I never entered that before, and it worked, but for whatever reason, my iMac is DHCPing like normal again.
Fish