Bizarre dhcp problem

[Tsuki]

I'm on a network with a dhcp server, so I use dhcp to set up my (only) network card's configuration. After booting up, however, I'm unable to use the network at all (everything produces a "host unresolvable" error).

The odd thing, though, is that if I delete /var/run/dhcpcd-eth0.pid and run dhcpcd eth0 myself, the connection works fine. Both before and after doing it manually, ifconfig reports an identical configuration of eth0.

I'm wondering if the automatic run of dhcpcd on boot-up isn't filling in my /etc/resolv.conf properly - any ideas what might be causing that?

(If this is really simple, sorry! I'm not very experienced with Linux - but as you can probably tell from the fact I've been through a Gentoo install, I'm learning fast! ^_^)

[NeddySeagoon]

Tsuki,

dhcpd doesn't run on boot. Thats to enable you to serve IP addresses to others. To get an IP from a DHCP server on your network you need to edit /etc/conf.d/net to have just one line uncommented. Thats this one.

[Tsuki]

Already checked both of those, I'm afraid ^_^; (I guess I should have mentioned that... sorry!)

[Pachacamac]