Problem with "corrupt" lease file
Simon Hobson
dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Sun Jul 1 17:25:44 UTC 2007
Niall O'Reilly wrote:
> > That is ANCIENT, upgrade.
> Yes, but that may be beside the point.
>
> OP's situation, IIUC, is that he has:
>
> - equipment which returns string data containing '#'
> and following characters,
> - a version of dhcpd which happily writes this
> string to the leases file,
> - the same and later versions of dhcpd which
> can't read the string correctly.
>I believe it's a bug in dhcpd that it would write data to the leases
>file which it can't read back correctly. I don't know whether this
>behaviour
>is still found in the current (3.0.5) release.
>
> If not (i.e. it's been fixed), OP's best route would be to migrate
>to 3.0.5
So your argument is "it looks like a bug, upgrade and see if the
problem is fixed" ?
Since whatever happens it's going to need an upgrade, the logical
answer is to upgrade and see if it is fixed - which would remove the
need to go back over many years of stuff to find out if it was or not.
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