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| | DHCP server exhausts pool while leases free | |
It appears that deny or allow lines nor authoritative declarations change anything: the problem persists.
However, some phones are still given IP numbers, but none that are not already presend in /var/lib/dhcp3/dhcpd.leases.
All leases that list NorTel range IP numbers are free though.
Having read the following section from the dhcp-leases man-page:
“ Group, subgroup and host declarations in the lease file are handled in the same manner, except that if any of these objects are deleted, a rubout is written to the lease file. This is just the same declara- tion, with { deleted; } in the scope of the declaration. When the lease file is rewritten, any such rubouts that can be eliminated are eliminated. It is possible to delete a declaration in the dhcpd.conf file; in this case, the rubout can never be eliminated from the dhcpd.leases file. ”
, but not full understanding, I suspect that the problem has to do with the leases file, so I clean it up with:
cd /var/lib/dhcp3
cp dhcpd.leases dhcpd.leases.aside
cat dhcpd.leases|tr -d '\n'|sed 's%}%}\n%g'|egrep -v ";\ *binding state free\ *;"|sed s'%;%;\n%g ; s%{%{\n%g' > dhcpd.leases.new
cp dhcpd.leases.new dhcpd.leases
Restarting the DHCP daemon then shows the VoIP phones getting IP numbers again.
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Please note that the above command doesn't cut it in |
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| DHCP server exhausts pool while leases free |  | DHCP server offering lease over and over |