MANY DHCPINFOMR on my log
Benjamin Wiechman
benw at meltel.com
Tue Nov 7 20:37:36 UTC 2006
Is it normal to see this multiple times in one day from the same client?
Is there any way of making the server log a bit more information on this to
verify that the request is indeed coming from the client that previously
that address?
-----Original Message-----
From: dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf
Of blizzards at libero.it
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:07 AM
To: dhcp-users
Cc: dhcp-users
Subject: Re: MANY DHCPINFOMR on my log
Ok thank you so much!
> blizzards at libero.it wrote:
>
> >I noticed many and many logs like
> >
> >Oct 26 12:46:01 dns1 dhcpd: DHCPINFORM from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx via
> >xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Oct 26 12:46:01 dns1 dhcpd: DHCPACK to
> >xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> >(xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx) via xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> >
> >from different clients and i don't know why. Can you tell me why this
> >happen and if this is an error, a bugs and so on??
>
> It happens because a client makes a dhcp inform request - a method of
> requesting network parameters separately to requesting an IP address.
> One program I know of that does this is Internet Exploder^H^H^Hrer
> which is looking for things like configuration and proxy settings.
>
> So it is normal behaviour.
>
>
>
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