lease file -> XML?

[David W. Hankins]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:19:34AM -0500, Ted Lemon wrote:
> My personal feeling is that it would be a very smart idea to actually 
> make the lease file an XML file.   So I think this is a good idea as 
> much because it's a step down that path as for any other reason.

leases in xml makes a certain amount of sense.  particularly if you
want external applications to consume and make reports based upon
it.

there should at some point be a variety of options, the old leases db
for backwards compatibility, xml, sql, ldap, so forth.

dhcpd will definitely need to keep its 'configuration' and 'running'
state in separate areas, but having configuration data start showing
up in those same types of places wouldn't be too bad an idea either
(as people with millions of host statements can tell you).


what we need first, and why i keep postponing committing any
ldap/sql/etc patch I get, is an API layer between the running
daemon and all database models.

i hope to at least accomplish the api and meta-configuration-syntax
in 3.1.0.


...for some reason i missed the mail that ted responded to.  sorry,
i guess i might have been deleting mail too aggressively lately.

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