booting disallowed

[Simon Schlumpf]

Simon Hobson wrote:
> Simon Schlumpf wrote:
>
>> Maybe this is interesting to, one minute before the client gets his 
>> IP, this appears in the log:
>>
>> Dec 10 09:08:52 intranet dhcpd: Wrote 0 deleted host decls to leases 
>> file.
>> Dec 10 09:08:52 intranet dhcpd: Wrote 0 new dynamic host decls to 
>> leases file.
>> Dec 10 09:08:52 intranet dhcpd: Wrote 112 leases to leases file.
>>
>> What does this mean?
>
>
> That's just the server doing a cleanup of the leases file. The leases 
> file is a log - every time anything changes, a new record is appended 
> to the file.
>
> Periodically, once an hour by default, the server writes out a new 
> file from it's in-memory data, and replaces the old file with this new 
> record. Without this step, the leases file would just keep growing.
>
Okay, great thanks. But when i understand you correctly, this should not 
have an effect to the server so that he can or can't serve IP addresses?

Simon