MANY DHCPINFOMR on my log

[Benjamin Wiechman]

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.
> 
> 
>