Problems with Lots of Static DHCP Mappings

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Monday, October 20, 2003 6:02 PM -0400 Neff_Glen at emc.com wrote:

> I know 893 static assignments may seem extreme, but this setup has allowed
> us strong, centralized control of a complex testing environment and up
> until now has been rock-solid solution for us.

Seems like a small count to me if you were an ISP or campus assigning 
thousands of addresses through some kind of registration system.

> What's more, the only reason machines
> with older static assignments are continuing to get their static
> assignments is because they're stored in the (semi-) persistant lease file
> (dhcpd.leases).  If I delete that file (and it's backup and 'touch' to
> create a new one, then no proper static assignments are being given out.

Sounds like some kind of error in the config file is preventing the statics 
from getting parsed. Are you seeing any errors reported in the log files?