Re: [Astlinux-users] DHCP reservations

[Michael K. <li...@mk...>]

> Am 05.03.2020 um 17:31 schrieb Tom Chadwin <tom...@nn...>:
> 
>>> it's
>> still getting its previous lease address. Is that because the lease has not yet
>> expired? If so, can I delete the lease so it requests a new one, and hopefully
>> gets the reservation?
>> 
>> Yes, you can use the Edit tab and load the 'dnsmasq.leases' file and delete
>> the old lease, "Save Changes" and "Restart DNS & DHCP".
> 
> I've done that, but the device is not getting the reserved address even after I did that. I'll have a think and see if I can figure it out. I guess a phone factory reset would probably do the trick, but it's a while since I did one on that site, and I'm a tad nervous in case things go wrong.
> 
> Thanks for the help
> 
> Tom

Maybe dnsmasq is caching the data somewhere else until the lease expires …
I had the same issue also, but after some time (hours) the device gets the new IP address.

Michael

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