Re: 1.31 released

Manuel Kasper <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.m0n0wall
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 06.03.2010, at 15:36, Dennis Karlsson wrote:

> Is it writing to disk on this patch; "added patch to ISC-DHCP to rewrite
> lease file every 5 minutes"

No, the DHCP leases file is still stored in a memory file system (i.e. it's lost on reboot). But by default, ISC-DHCPD only cleans up old entries in the leases file once per hour, which can lead to large lease files (and thus MFS exhaustion on m0n0wall) on busy networks.

- Manuel
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