What Exactly Causes "uid lease" Messages?

[Martin McCormick]

Claus Holm Christensen writes:
> In DHCP, the client is supposed to send both a MAC address and a DHCP
> Client Identifier (called "uid" in the leases file?) to the server, to
> identify the client. The DHCP server should prefer this value over the
> MAC address, but when two hosts on different networks share the Client
> Identifier, the server realises that it can't possibly be the same host
> and emits this error message to warn about it.
> 
> It should be easy to find out. Check the leases-file and locate the two
> different leases mentioned, then compare the uid field.

	I did and it is like you describe except for 1 thing.
After picking one at random, I found three leases with the same
UID. They also had the same MAC address. How folks are doing
this I am not sure, but it is as if they have a previous fond
memory of X lease which they sometimes ask for.:-)

	Here is the pair of leases for one client. The hardware
address is the same as well as the UID field.

lease 139.78.228.141 {
  starts 5 2008/06/13 06:07:10;
  ends 5 2008/06/13 06:37:10;
  tstp 5 2008/06/13 06:37:10;
  tsfp 5 2008/06/13 07:22:10;
  atsfp 5 2008/06/13 07:22:10;
  cltt 5 2008/06/13 06:07:10;
  binding state free;
  hardware ethernet 00:15:c5:ac:bd:87;


lease 139.78.228.230 {
  starts 0 2008/06/15 01:16:20;
  ends 0 2008/06/15 01:46:20;
  tstp 0 2008/06/15 01:46:20;
  tsfp 0 2008/06/15 02:31:20;
  atsfp 0 2008/06/15 02:31:20;
  cltt 0 2008/06/15 01:16:20;
  binding state free;
  hardware ethernet 00:15:c5:ac:bd:87;


lease 139.78.231.94 {
  starts 4 2008/06/12 10:12:41;
  ends 2 2008/05/27 17:22:38;
  tstp 4 2008/06/12 10:12:41;
  tsfp 4 2008/06/12 10:12:41;
  atsfp 4 2008/06/12 10:12:41;
  cltt 2 2008/05/27 16:52:38;
  binding state backup;
  hardware ethernet 00:15:c5:ac:bd:87;


lease 139.78.231.177 {
  starts 4 2008/06/12 02:33:31;
  ends 4 2008/06/12 02:35:31;
  tstp 1 2008/04/14 10:15:45;
  tsfp 4 2008/06/12 02:35:31;
  atsfp 4 2008/06/12 02:35:31;
  cltt 4 2008/06/12 02:33:31;
  binding state backup;
  hardware ethernet 00:15:c5:ac:bd:87;