Culmination.org » dhcp http://www.culmination.org You are what you've become. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:32:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 ISC DHCPD duplicate uid lease http://www.culmination.org/2008/10/28/isc-dhcpd-duplicate-uid-lease/ http://www.culmination.org/2008/10/28/isc-dhcpd-duplicate-uid-lease/#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:45:58 +0000 mike http://www.culmination.org/?p=304 Ever see this?

dhcpd: uid lease 192.168.1.150 for client xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx is duplicate on 192.168.1/24

or something like it, in your dhcp logs? Well I checked /var/log/messages today and saw that I had thousands of this message repeated over and over (so much so it was spamming my log  and making it harder to find what might be important stuff). I searched around the ‘net and found some hints but nothing conclusive. The hints pointed toward a duplicate lease (duh) but more specifically lead me to check my leases file. Mine was located in /var/db/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases.

It turns out that what caused this error for me was that I had started the machine in question (the MAC address has been altered to protect the innocent haha) before I had the time to create a reservation for it. Then after it already had an address leased to it, I created a reservation for it (for internal DNS purposes, nothing more). Apparently because duplicates are allowed by default in isc dhcpd, when the machine’s networking was restarted and it got it’s new reserved IP, the server kept the original lease (which was that .150 address) and also got a lease from it’s reservation (.80 on my network). Since the .150 lease was still present in the leases file it caused the warning message (over and over and over for a month).

So if you are using isc dhcpd, and you use reservations, and you’re getting these error messages, you might want to check your leases file and make sure that you don’t have a lease for something that also has a reservation under a different IP.

The other pages I found on my search also suggested that you might have a reservation that hands out an address that is within your dynamic scope. You definitely don’t want to do that, so you may need to check that out as well in your dhcpd.conf.

For the curious, I run FreeBSD 7 on a Pentium 4 Dell desktop (I think it’s a dimension series, I haven’t looked at it in a while haha) that sits in my kitchen as a headless DNS/DHCP/Web/Random Unix Fun server. It’s actually making lots of bad noise lately and I think one of it’s fans might be going :( I’ll check that out and report back :)

]]> http://www.culmination.org/2008/10/28/isc-dhcpd-duplicate-uid-lease/feed/ 6 DHCP Renaming your mac? http://www.culmination.org/2008/04/04/dhcp-renaming-your-mac/ http://www.culmination.org/2008/04/04/dhcp-renaming-your-mac/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:23:26 +0000 mike http://www.culmination.org/?p=295 The DHCP server at my office was reconfigured yesterday and it started forcing my macbook pro to change it’s name. I like having my host name remain constant for various reasons, so I asked in #macosx and some kind user there pointed me to this blog post:

http://www.elharo.com/blog/software-development/web-development/2005/11/29/setting-a-permanent-host-name-in-mac-os-x/

It works on leopard, in case you’re wondering! Solved my problem after a reboot.

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