Re: dhcp server null pointer in option_cache_dereference

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <Pine.NEB.4.64.2008120933290.147@ugly>,
Stephen Borrill  <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
>On some machines newly upgraded to 9.0_STABLE, dhcp runs fine for, say, 24 
>hours then starts logging the following. After this point, it no longer 
>handles any DHCP requests:
>
>Null pointer in option_cache_dereference: 
>/usr/src/external/mpl/dhcp/bin/server/../../dist/server/dhcp.c(4067)
>
>That 4067 is meant to be a line number according to dist/common/options.c, 
>but there's no call to option_cache_dereference() at line 4067. Also, most 
>calls to option_cache_dereference() don't specify the line as the third 
>option, but I may be missing something.
>
>Any ideas?

No, I have not seen that... The code on HEAD is different...

christos