[Dnsmasq-discuss] Lease comes back after removing, DBus

Geert Stappers stappers at stappers.nl
Thu Jun 27 06:09:28 BST 2019


On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 06:20:32PM -0700, A C wrote:
> On 2019-06-26 13:32, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > On 24-06-2019 02:38, A C wrote:
....
> >>>>> On 23-06-2019 08:06, A C wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> I'm having trouble removing leases from my system.
...
> >> There seems to be some kind of persistence that exists outside of just
> >> the lease file but I don't know where that is.  This isn't the first
> >> time this has happened and it's happened with different embedded devices
> >> and non-embedded devices (cameras, AP's, IoTs, phones, etc.) there just
> >> seems to be sticky lease data somewhere.
> >>
> > You are probadly right about the "sticky lease data somewhere"
> > (I'm not comfortable to say "you are right about sticky lease data" )
> > 
> > The lease file I removed had size of zero bytes.
> > 
> > My (educated??) guess is that lease data is stored in Dbus.
> > My only point to back that up, is `dnsmasq -v` showing "DBus"
> 
> Yes, my copy does have DBus support.  I've turned on dbus-monitor to see
> if anything shows up at the next lease update.  There's enough devices I
> shouldn't have to wait long.

This email is to express that I'm looking forward to those test results.


Groeten
Geert Stappers


P.S.

The addition of 'DBus' to the subject is for inviting
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