Why would addresses from a range not appear in the lease file

Simon Hobson simon at thehobsons.co.uk
Mon Apr 25 14:24:27 UTC 2016


"Friesen, Don MTIC:EX" <Don.Friesen at gov.bc.ca> wrote:

> My understanding was that with failover all IPs appear in the leases file, active or not.

No. AIUI a lease does not appear in the file until the address has been used. Internally, every address in a range is present in the hash tables, but they aren't written out to disk until the lease info is "no longer blank".



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