Deleting a lease

[Doug Armstrong]

Gideon Viator wrote:
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> Hey guys,
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> My Calix equipment is hung up on a binding. The engineers want me to delete
> the lease on the DHCP server. I see the lease in the
> /var/state/dhcp/dhcpd.leases file. Is it possible to do this or should I
> just wait for it to expire?
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> Thanks.
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> Gideon Viator
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> IT Systems Administrator 
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> Kaplan Telecommunications
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> 337-643-7171
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Stop the server, edit the lease file then restart. The lease database is 
in memory and is not updated to disk until the server has time to clean 
it up. To ensure the disk copy matches the live copy you need to stop 
the demon.

Doug Armstrong
www.ovationdata.com