Blog tagged as DHCP

I have had several discussions lately relating to the recycling of abandoned leases in Infoblox DHCP (which is based upon ISC dhcpd). There seems to be a common misunderstanding about how the process works.

To recap, an abandoned lease occurs when the DHCP server encounters one of the following situa...

Infoblox DHCP is based upon ISC DHCP with a few tweaks here and there. The DHCP failover mechanism that it employs started as a relatively simple 14 page IETF draft proposal (available here) that was implemented in Alcatel-Lucent/Nokia VitalQIP (then Quadritek, the authors of the draf...