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Subject: Re: Out of free leases.
From: Simon Hobson <shobson () colony ! com>
Date: 2003-01-30 9:17:02
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Keith Woodworth wrote:
>So we have come across the dreaded out of free leases problem. Its only a
>/25 that is in use, not a large subnet.
>
>We use the dhcpd daemon that comes with BSD/OS 4.1 and while it does not
>spit out a version number I think its of the version 2 variety.
>
>What is happening is that abanded leases are not being re-used. According
>to the FAQ on this I should be able to stop dhcpd, run a script over the
>dhcpd.leases file to remove all the abandonded leases, replace the old
>lease file with the new one and restart dhcpd.
>
>Is this correct?
Yes, you must keep the server stopped while you edit the leases file,
BUT you can edit it manually (or via script). Version 2 is very old
BTW, version 3 WILL automatically recover abandoned leases.
Simon
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