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BAD_ADDRESS FLOOD IN WINDOWS DHCP SERVER
How a single misbehaving client can take down your network Well, not really your entire network but definitely DHCP. I came across a linux client that had issues with assigning an IP address using dhclient. The dhclient process would throw a null pointer exception during the phase in which it attempts to validate the assigned IP address. From here, dhclient sends a DHCPDECLINE message to the server. The DHCPDECLINE message tells the server that something is either wrong with the DHCP parameters or that the client discovered that the IP was in use (through gratuitous ARP or in this case, a failed attempt at sending a gratuitous ARP). cat /var/log/messages : RFC 1541 states: “If the server receives a DHCPDECLINE message, the client has discovered through some other means that the suggested network address is already in use. The server MUST mark the network address as “not allocated” and SHOULD notify the local system administrator of a possible configuration pr...
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