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DHCPINFORM / DHCPACK appearing every few hours in syslog

Hello,

hcpd: isc-dhcpd-V3.0.1
clients: Windows XP Pro

I have the default lease time set to 7 days. However, I'm seeing DHCPINFORM messages for each client every few hours. I would only expect to see one after 3.5 days.

Does anyone know why this is?

Thanks,
Steve :)
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This is because the WINS current database maintenance is done using DHCPInform and DHCPACK Packets.

Hence the requirement for much more regular appearances of these packets:

http://207.46.19.60/technet/itsolutions/network/evaluate/technol/tcpipfund/tcpipfund_ch12.mspx

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Thanks for the answer pjedmond, but I'm not running a WINS server, just Samba (WINS disabled).

Steve :)
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Damn those pesky features!

So, assuming I have no DHCP problems that I want to know about, the only way to stop this is to prevent syslog from logging them?

Steve :)