Would reserved leases work for you ?

Only available in the latest versions, you can add the statement "reserved;" to a lease and it will then be tied to that client - it will not be re-allocated to any other client. Apart from being tied to one client, it goes though the normal leases lifecycle and so will show active/expired as appropriate.

The only way to set this is to stop the server, edit the leases file (add a skeleton lease record if required), and start the server again.

-- Simon Hobson

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