"Old (expired) leases are now cleaned."

[David W. Hankins]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 06:22:31PM -0700, Mark Duling wrote:
> Regarding the changes listed for 4.0 (see below), can someone tell me how
> expired leases are cleaned in 4.2 code?  Can a max-time be set for expired
> leases to be deleted if not renewed?  I may have missed it but I looked in
> the man pages and .conf file comments and can't find this information.
> 
> Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
> 
> Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.

This refers to DHCPv6 leases.

As a /64 has quite possibly 2^64 dynamic leases, it is not advisable
to retain expired leases.  Clients are directed to their previous
lease because we select candidate leases algorithmically (hashing the
client ID).

-- 
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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