Re: dhcp leases expire before they start!

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luke dobson wrote:

>I am running dhcpd (dhcp-2.0pl5-8) on RedHat7.3 with some updates.

That is now very old, and effectively not supported.

>The
>server hands leases out with no problems but a quick check in the
>/var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases file reveals a problem. The following is an
>exerpt.
>
>lease 192.168.5.10 {
>         starts 3 2003/01/29 11:43:42;
>         ends 3 2003/01/29 11:43:41;
>         hardware ethernet 00:08:02:62:a8:76;
>         uid 01:00:08:02:62:a8:76;
>         client-hostname "Yosemite";
>}

Just a possibility, that could be -1 seconds (lease lengths are 
actually in lengths of time rather than end end date/time) which IIRC 
means 'infinite' for the lease length.

Simon

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