data: lease_time: lease ends at 1248109552 when it is now 1248109556

Bruce Hudson Bruce.Hudson at Dal.Ca
Tue Jul 21 12:25:46 UTC 2009


> Jul 20 17:05:56 DHCPSVR1 dhcpd: DHCPRELEASE of 192.168.0.224 from
> 00:2a:d2:ae:1d:ef via eth0 (found)
> Jul 20 17:05:56 DHCPSVR1 dhcpd: data: lease_time: lease ends at
> 1248109552 when it is now 1248109556
> 
> On the last line, I don't understand what it means by "lease_time:
> lease ends at 1248109552 when it is now 1248109556" is this fault?
> Done googling on this but can't find a clear answer.

    The release from the client arrived at "17:05:56" (1248109556 in
epoch time) while the lease had actually expired 4 seconds earlier. 
Clients should not be releasing expired leases so this is a fault in
the client; but not overly serious IMO.
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