Leases for fixed-address hosts not written to lease file?
Simon Hobson
dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Wed May 23 06:28:31 UTC 2007
Steve van der Burg wrote:
>Using dhcpd-3.0.4, I can't seem to figure out why a lease given to a
>host with configuration like this (pushed to the server via omshell)
>
> host 00-19-bb-d7-8a-c2 {
> dynamic;
> hardware ethernet 00:19:bb:d7:8a:c2;
> fixed-address 10.136.76.224;
> }
>
>doesn't show up in the leases file. I can see that the lease is
>fine (by checking what the client gets), and all of my "normal" (ie.
>no fixed address, just regular dynamic address assignment) leases
>are logged just fine.
>
>Any ideas?
Yes
The server does not write lease records for such leases - on the
basis that it doesn't need to, all the information it needs is in the
config file.
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