SPAM-HIGH: RE: Buffer read error when reading leases file.
Steve
steve at iwwd.com
Fri Nov 15 05:08:57 UTC 2013
Hi Shawn,
Ok, thanks, I'll grab the source and give that a try.
Thanks.
Steve.
-----Original Message-----
From: dhcp-users-bounces+steve=iwwd.com at lists.isc.org
[mailto:dhcp-users-bounces+steve=iwwd.com at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Shawn
Routhier
Sent: Friday, 15 November 2013 3:36 PM
To: Users of ISC DHCP
Subject: SPAM-HIGH: RE: Buffer read error when reading leases file.
I believe the v6 lease rotation patch first appeared in 4.2.4.
shawn
On Nov 14, 2013, at 8:01 PM, Steve wrote:
> Hi Glen,
>
> Thanks, I'll give them a try.
>
> The version I'm using is 4.2.2 which is up to date according to
> Debian's APT repository. If this doesn't fix it, I'll have to compile
> the latest from source.
>
> Thanks
> Steve.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dhcp-users-bounces+steve=iwwd.com at lists.isc.org
> [mailto:dhcp-users-bounces+steve=iwwd.com at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of
> Neff, Glen
> Sent: Friday, 15 November 2013 12:16 AM
> To: Users of ISC DHCP
> Subject: SPAM-HIGH: RE: Buffer read error when reading leases file.
>
> I haven't had your issue (but I might of had things continued), but I
> seem to remember something about the defaults for these values being
> problematically low & causing a lot of churn in the lease file. These
> settings were recommended to me:
>
> option dhcp-renewal-time 3600;
> option dhcp-rebinding-time 7200;
> allow leasequery;
> option dhcp6.info-refresh-time 21600;
>
> -G
>
> /*
> * Glen R. J. Neff
> * USD Lab Operations Infrastructure Team
> * glen.neff at emc.com
> *
> * EMC^2 == E^2
> */
> ________________________________________
> From: dhcp-users-bounces+glen.neff=emc.com at lists.isc.org
> [dhcp-users-bounces+glen.neff=emc.com at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of
> Steve [steve at iwwd.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 6:46 PM
> To: dhcp-users at lists.isc.org
> Subject: Buffer read error when reading leases file.
>
> Hi All,
>
> I've been trying to debug why our dhcp-v6 service wasn't starting when
> this line appeared in syslog:
>
> dhcpd: /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd6.leases: file is too long to buffer.
>
> Upon checking the file, I found it was a massive 6.2GB in file size!
>
> This server handles a floating number of around 300-500
> clients-devices, how on earth could the leases file grown this large?
>
> Thanks
> Steve.
>
>
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