<div dir="ltr">Exactly Simon!<br><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Simon Hobson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dhcp1@thehobsons.co.uk" target="_blank">dhcp1@thehobsons.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Patrick Trapp <<a href="mailto:ptrapp@nex-tech.com">ptrapp@nex-tech.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> If you are using host entries to dictate what address a device gets (and not allowing devices to grab random addresses - effectively making them static without having to configure it on the device), then when you delete that host entry from the dhcpd.conf, you would know that address is free.<br>
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</span>Yes, but I think the primary issue is knowing that the assignment is no longer needed - as in, that device hasn't been here for a while. Jim has given an example of how I suspect most systems manage it - literally keep track of what IPs and MACs are in use, and see if any of them go stale.<br>
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An alternative approach could be to use reserved leases. That way, each usage of the assignment goes through the normal DHCP lifecycle - including DNS updates. By tracking lease usage etc you can then see if a lease is no longer being used.<br>
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Basically it's the old problem - when something is needed for something else to work then it gets noticed, when that something is no longer needed then it just gets forgotten about.<br>
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