isc-dhcpd weird effect
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Thu Jan 1 17:13:41 PST 2004
Pierrick Brossin <pbrossin at swissgeeks.com> writes:
> I have a DHCP server at home (isc-dhcpd) and I've been wondering for a
> long time why it is giving the last IP addresses of the specified
> range at first?
> Like I tell him a range from 10.0.0.50 to 10.0.0.100 and it's giving 100
> then 99,98,97 and so on. Why not directly 50 then 51,52,53,... ??
>
> Should be someone who knows :)
It's an artifact of the way the data structures get initialized at the
daemon startup. I don't see any problem with it...
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