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offered was from a dynamic range or fixed-address. Those are details
configured on the server side of things.

regards,
-glenn


>Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:11:50 -0400
>From: Scott Lacy <LACY_S at Mercer.edu>
>
>So Microsoft DHCP's behavior of reserving addresses specifically for 
>certain MACs is not standard?  That's the first DHCP product I've used 
>(I know, I know), so I was assuming that ISC dhcpd would behave the same 
>way.
>
>
>Scott
>
>
>John Wobus wrote:
>> It's possible you are seeing normal behavior.  If you are using host 
>> declarations
>> to attempt to reserve addresses, you are under a misimpression.  Host 
>> declarations
>> do not reserve addresses; they merely tell the server to give a certain
>> answer when they receive a certain MAC address.
>> You reserve addresses by leaving them out of the configured ranges
>> that are dynamically allocated.
>>
>> John Wobus
>>
>> On Jul 6, 2007, at 3:31 PM, Scott Lacy wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> I have a DHCP server running ISC DHCPD v3.0.3 on Fedora Core.  I am
>>> having an issue where dhcpd is giving out leases for reserved IP
>>> addresses to hosts other than that which the addresses are reserved
>>> for.  There are no indication in the logs of any conflicts.  The logs
>>> look fairly vanilla and there was no indication of any trouble until I
>>> got a call about an IP conflict with the machine the reservation is
>>> for.  The only quick way to resolve the problem was to power down the
>>> offending device.  Even removing the newly-issued lease from DHCP and
>>> having the other device pull an address did not seem to help.
>>>
>>> Is there anything that jumps out to any of you as far as things I 
>>> should
>>> check my configuration for?  I've run this installation for almost a
>>> year and I've had this come up twice in the last month, both on 
>>> networks
>>> that were set up in DHCP long ago.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Scott Lacy
>>> Systems Manager
>>> Mercer University
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>>
>>
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