Dhclient makes system unresponsive with very short leases

[David W. Hankins]

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 04:02:44PM +0200, Simon Matter wrote:
> However the issue seems to exist with all ISC dhcp version which is why I
> post here as well. This is what I posted to RedHat's bugzilla. The patch I
> used to fix it for me is also attached there

The patch appears to enforce a 60 second minimum lease time, which is
not described in any IETF RFC.  I suspect imposing one would be met
with some resistance.

This is purely a data problem, /var filling up is not a symptom of a
deeper problem, it is the whole problem; if the client is instructed
to observe a 2-second lease expiration, it should renew in 1 second,
and it is only the bulk of data recorded that causes an issue.

-- 
David W. Hankins	"If you don't do it right the first time,
Software Engineer		     you'll just have to do it again."
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.		-- Jack T. Hankins
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