Server Down - How should Client Act?

[Ted Lemon]

On Monday 01 May 2006 10:36, David W. Hankins wrote:
> But some clients choose to adopt link local addresses and give up on DHCP
> entirely until something jars it back into operation.

I don't know of any correctly-functioning clients that do this.   Most of the 
ones I know of keep trying, albeit at fairly long intervals.   If a client 
gives up and never tries again, it's probably a bug.