Distributing DNS load via DHCP

[Simon Hobson]

Jeff Wieland wrote:

>For some reason, in the case where there are two pools like below, I'm
>thinking that dhcpd (at least the 3.X releases) will take alternate taking
>addresses from each pool.

No, it's never done that.

V3.x allocates unused addresses top down - ie numerically highest 
address first. V4 seems to have reversed that.
Once there are no "never used" addresses, previously used ones are 
recycled on a least recently used basis.

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