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Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 19:53:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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Subject: Re: dhcps Q:
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On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Christoph Kukulies wrote:

> 
> dhcps[17050]: Assign 192.168.0.12 to the client(cid is "1:0x0080c88428ab:192.168
> .0.0") till "Thu Jan  1 00:59:59 1970". 
> 
> Just a question: Is that a configuration problem or just the
> value that is taken to indicate eternity in unix ?
> 

Jan 1 1970 at midnight is the UNIX epoch.  How did the client configure
itself, using BOOTP, or do you give infinite leases?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major