'pidof dhclient' didn't return anything, nor did 'pidof rcdhclient'. Even when name resolution is working fine, neither command returns anything.
Okay, let's use a different method: 'ps aufx | grep dhc'
Yeah, that turns up dhcpcd.
There's nothing in /var/log/messages about dhclient, except for the messages generated by restarting it.
If it dies it should log an error.
Nope. No errors being logged.
What about dhcpcd? (Is there a certain reason why you use dhclient?)
Well, apparently, I'm actually using dhcpcd, according to ps. The dhclient bit came into play when I was trying to figure out how to work around this problem. I've got a more-or-less stock SuSE installation going on, nothing fancy, especially in the networking area. I don't know much about the particulars of what's going on with all of that, so I've left it alone. -SB -- "As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life -- so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls." -- Matt Cartmill