Re: [webmin-l] DHCP delete_lease

[Andreas M. <and...@sb...>]

Jamie Cameron schrieb:
> On 22/Sep/2009 03:03 Andreas Moroder <and...@sb...> wrote ..
>> Hello,
>>
>> according to the source code delete_lease does simply delete the lease 
>> from the file. This is a problem if DDNS is enabled and dhcp registers 
>> end deletes the hostname in bind. Would it be possible to change this 
>> function to use the Net::DHCP::Packet from cpan.
>> ( http://search.cpan.org/~fvandun/Net-DHCP-0.11/lib/Net/DHCP/Packet.pm )
>>
>> If I understood it right this package can be used to send a release 
>> command to dhcpd and dhcpd should do all the cleanup job ( even DDNS ) 
>> without restart of the daemon
> 
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> That sounds like a good idea .. however, the Net::DHCP::Packet perl module
> doesn't seem to document the actual call needed to remove a lease. Do you
> happen to have any example code for this?
> 
>  - Jamie
> 
Hello,

I am sorry, but no, I don't have documentation or samples. I asked the 
programmer of this module but got no answer. Maybe the chance to get a 
answer is bigger if you,a well known perl professional, ask.

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1533.html contains some information.


Bye
Andreas