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Why the two server approach? What function does it serve? This sounds
like it can be optimized but I still don't understand exactly what you
are trying to accomplish.
Thanks,
Matthew
Jason Grove wrote:
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> Well, what I would like to do is have the lease be given out for 15
> minutes, the student then has enough time to sign up for the "real" ip
> address. Currently the addresses given out by the Registration DHCP
> server are blocked at the routers from leaving the campus. The problem I
> am having is I have to rebuild the conf file on the Registration server
> every 5 minutes to make sure there is a deny booting identifier in there
> for every host I don't want to get one of the Registration IP addresses.
> Currently the file has 3300+ hosts in it. By next fall I forsee it
> increaseing to over 6000. So I guess my question is, with a host defined
> in the dhcpd.conf file has deny booting, and there is still a lease for
> that host in the dhcpd.leases file, when the host tries to renew, will
> it be denied from that server or will it be allowed to renew that
> address?
>
> The second question I have, is there a way to change the permissions on
> the lease file? Everytime the dhcp server is restarted the permissions
> are reset to 600. But I need them to be 644 so the file can be parsed
> for our registration system. I then have to do a chmod 644 to the file
> so the program will work. The weird part is this machine is the exact
> same configuration as the production DHCP server. And when ever the dhcp
> server is restarted on the production DHCP server, the lease file
> retains the 644 permissions.
>
> Both machines are Sun UltraSparcs running Solaris 2.6 with
> dhcp-2.0b1pl6.
>
> "Ralph E. Droms" wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Why would you want to do this?
> > >
> > > On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Jason Grove wrote:
> > > > I was wondering if there is a way to deny the renewal of a lease by a
> > > > client?
> >
> > In the case of a computer owned by a student at a university, you might
> > want to allocate a lease for the semester, but force the student's
> > comptuer to reacquire its address at the beginning of the next semester.
> > this strategy would guarantee reclaiming all addresses left unused by
> > students - for example, students who didn't return for the following
> > semester.
> >
> > - Ralph Droms
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