[Dnsmasq-discuss] Static leases issues
Olaf Hering
olaf at aepfle.de
Tue Jun 30 12:10:57 BST 2020
Am Mon, 29 Jun 2020 15:45:16 +0100
schrieb Simon Kelley <simon at thekelleys.org.uk>:
> the DHCP server has to comply
I think this is the question: comply to what?
Clearly the DHCP admin is the _only_ authority to decide which MAC gets what IP address, the DHCP client is only allowed to make suggestions. As such every DHCP server has to follow the source of authority, it should rather not follow what is written in some silly RFC. (I assume the implemented behavior comes from some RFC, not from real life expectations)
It might well be that the IP for the DHCP client will change in the future, once the lease expires. Why would it matter if the client gets the expected IP address "now" rather than "later"?
Olaf
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