Unknown clients may incorrectly receive offers of IP addresses in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Issue
- There are two dhcpd servers with DHCP failover function. The
deny unknown-clientsdirective is included in/etc/dhcpd.conf. However, unregistered clients' are given IP addresses and that information is written to thedhcpd.leasesfile.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
- dhcp-3.0.5-23.el5_5.2-i386
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