Lease file not getting cleaned out

Dallas Clement dallas at commverse.com
Mon Jun 23 16:36:09 UTC 2008


Hello All,

I'm seeing some strange behavior with the lease file in DHCP
4.1.  It's not getting cleaned out when there is a lease
renewal.  Things accumulate over time.  I'm renewing the 
lease every 5 minutes.  This is what it looks like:

# cat dhcpv4.leases                                         
                   
lease {                                                     
                   
  interface "eth0";                                         
                   
  fixed-address 192.168.0.252;                              
                   
  option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;                         
                   
  option routers 192.168.0.1;                               
                   
  option dhcp-lease-time 300;                               
                   
  option dhcp-message-type 5;                               
                   
  option domain-name-servers 66.199.187.181;                
                   
  option dhcp-server-identifier 192.168.0.54;               
                   
  option domain-name "billybob.net";                        
                   
  renew 4 1970/01/01 00:13:08;                              
                   
  rebind 4 1970/01/01 00:15:00;                             
                   
  expire 4 1970/01/01 00:15:38;                             
                   
}                                                           
                   
lease {                                                     
                   
  interface "eth0";                                         
                   
  fixed-address 192.168.0.252;                              
                   
  option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;                         
                   
  option routers 192.168.0.1;                               
                   
  option dhcp-lease-time 300;                               
                   
  option dhcp-message-type 5;                               
                   
  option domain-name-servers 66.199.187.181;                
                   
  option dhcp-server-identifier 192.168.0.54;               
                   
  option domain-name "billybob.net";                        
                   
  renew 4 1970/01/01 00:15:06;                              
                   
  rebind 4 1970/01/01 00:17:30;                             
                   
  expire 4 1970/01/01 00:18:08;                             
                   
}                                                           
                   
lease {                                                     
                   
  interface "eth0";                                         
                   
  fixed-address 192.168.0.252;                              
                   
  option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;                         
                   
  option routers 192.168.0.1;                               
                   
  option dhcp-lease-time 300;                               
                   
  option dhcp-message-type 5;                               
                   
  option domain-name-servers 66.199.187.181;                
                   
  option dhcp-server-identifier 192.168.0.54;               
                   
  option domain-name "billybob.net";                        
                   
  renew 4 1970/01/01 00:17:02;                              
                   
  rebind 4 1970/01/01 00:19:28;                             
                   
  expire 4 1970/01/01 00:20:06;                             
                   
}                                 

I'm also observing the same behavior with the IPv6 lease
file.  Has anyone experienced this same problem or have any
ideas on how to resolve it?  I presume this is a defect.

Thanks,
Dallas


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