Deny DHCP Address by MAC?

Tim Evans tkevans at tkevans.com
Fri Jul 16 20:20:55 UTC 2010


A .EDU with insecure offices, network outlets, and labs, is trying to 
track down a rogue DHCP client on their network that also happens to be 
infected with conficker.

They have a completely open DHCP setup (this is the entire dhcpd.conf file):

ddns-update-style ad-hoc;
authoritative;
subnet 192.168.9.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
  range 192.168.9.125 192.168.9.200;
   option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
   option broadcast-address 192.168.9.255;
   option routers 192.168.9.1;
   option domain-name-servers 192.168.9.4;
   option domain-name "xxx.xxx.xxx";
}

Any connected machine can get an address from the range specified in the 
config file. Bouncing this one's lease merely results in it getting a 
new one.

They know the rogue machine's MAC address, of course.  Can they deny it 
a DHCP address based only on the MAC? How? Thanks.
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