DHCP restart with bulk lease data

Sten Carlsen stenc at s-carlsen.dk
Wed Oct 23 13:43:52 UTC 2019


Looks like a Unix time to me. -> Wednesday, 23 October 2019 at 15.15.05 CEST

On 23-10-2019 15.33, Surya Teja wrote:
> Hi all,
> While performing the tests with dhcperf tool, I also observed one more
> lease file getting generated with a random number appending at last of
> the file name like 
> dhcpd.leases.*1571736969 , * I observed this after doing the restart
> of the dhcpd service,
> Deleted the file and perform the test again, after the second restart
> it again created one more random file
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6795717 Oct 23 13:14 *dhcpd.leases*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4386656 Oct 23 13:06 *dhcpd.leases~*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2433024 Oct 23 13:15 dhcpd.leases.*1571836505*
> What does this file mean ? 
> I tried online to check about this, but no references where
> found regarding the file generated like this 
> What does this indicates ?
>
> Thanks in Advance  
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 4:11 PM <sthaug at nethelp.no
> <mailto:sthaug at nethelp.no>> wrote:
>
>     > Yes I am running failover. but when the entry is shared from the
>     failover
>     > generally the binding state will be like *backup* right? but
>     here in my
>     > case i see both the entries as
>     > *binding state active;*  thus I got a doubt about this duplicate.
>
>     If a DHCP binding is active, in a failover configuration, you should
>     expect to see it as active on *both* servers.
>
>     Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no
>     <mailto:sthaug at nethelp.no>
>
>
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