Re: [SSI-devel] REgarding DHCP problem on debian 3.1(sarge)

[Brian J. W. <Bri...@hp...>]

Gopalakrishna NM wrote:
> Hi,
> 'The problem is resolved by putting the statement "not authoritative;" 
> at the top of the dhcpd.conf. The  DHCP  server  will  normally assume 
> that the configuration information  about a given network segment is 
> known to be correct and is  authoritative. So  if  a client requests an 
> IP address on a given network segment that the server knows is not valid 
> for that segment, the server will respond with  a DHCPNAK message, 
> causing the client to forget its IP address and try to get a new one.
> 
> Now the question is : should we put this statement by default while 
> modifying dhcpd.conf when we add  node or mention it in document to 
> manually put it?

This doesn't sound right. The DHCP server ought to be the authoritative 
source of IP addresses for network booting nodes. Who else would be?

Brian