How to not allocate any address to a specific host?

David Landgren david at landgren.net
Tue Mar 14 11:07:52 UTC 2006


David W. Hankins wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 02:35:42PM +0100, David Landgren wrote:
>> Glenn Satchell wrote:
>>> The simple way is to use:
>>>
>>> host obsolete1 {
>>> 	hardware 00:0a:e4:36:7b:4b;
>>> 	deny booting;
>>> }
>> Excellent!
> 
> Note that if you use this method, there's a bug in versions 3.0.2 and
> prior that may apply 'deny booting;' to every client that attempts to
> boot after the one you denied, until you restart the server.
> 
> This was fixed in 3.0.3b2.

hmm. I'm using 3.0.3. I assume b means beta, in which case I'm safe?

> So it's best to upgrade.
> 
> So long as you're upgrading, I'd like you to try 3.0.4b3 and tell
> us how it goes.

I'll put this on the queue, but no promises that I'll have time to get 
around to it this week.

Thanks,
David
-- 
"It's overkill of course, but you can never have too much overkill."



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