It is very silly but the default on the ifup-eth script tells dhclient ( the program that obtains a DHCP IPaddress if you have selected DHCPin your ifcfg-eth* config file) to EXIT / QUIT if the first attempt to obtain a lease fails.
No amount of dhclient.conf settings will fix this because if dhclient is started with -1 (which it is by default)then dhclient will quit.
This is obviously very bad for MOST cases. Say for example you have a power outage or........
I was getting frustrated with trying to write a simple URL like this:
/example-withdash
I used the htaccess code like this:
Rewriterule ^example-withdash$ / [R=301]
I also tried escaping the dash which I thought should have treated it as a literal but that didn't work either:
Rewriterule ^example-withdash$ / [R=301]
But it wouldn't work, apparently the "-" dash means don't substitute,........