loophole with limiting leases per client

[Brian J. Murrell]

from the quill of Ted Lemon <mellon at isc.org> on scroll
<199910191337.JAA00446 at grosse.manhattan.fugue.com>
> 
> I really don't like this as a global modification,

OK.

> although it would
> probably be safe in your situation.

OK.

> The correct thing would be to
> simply not let a host declaration with a hardware address ever match a
> client that send a client identifier.

Ick!  That would not be good.  It would mean having to be sensitive to
what kind of client is on the other end.  For instance a host entry that
works with (say) the ISC client with no defined UID would fail to work
if the user switched O/S's to Windows 98.

> Of course, this would cause
> major breakage, since it's quite common for people to use the hardware
> statement even for clients that *do* send client identifiers.   :'(

Also can be a case of not knowing what is on the other end.

> I'll have to think about how to solve this.   I think it's doable, but
> it will require some thought.

Okidoki.

b.


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