fixed-address leases in dhcpd.leases

Niall O'Reilly niall.oreilly at ucd.ie
Mon Mar 30 16:56:53 UTC 2020


On 30 Mar 2020, at 17:00, Bob Harold wrote:

> This sounds like a 'new' feature, I had not heard of it before, but 
> when I check git blame at
> <https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/dhcp/-/blame/master/server/dhcpd.conf.5>
>
> the lines referring to 'reserved lease' are 9 and 13 years old.  Is 
> it really that old?

That seems credible.

A method I've used for keeping track of whether a fixed address is still 
active
is to pull the DORA entries from the log and use them to update a 
last-seen database.
It's tedious, but effective.

Niall O'Reilly


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