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A DHCPv4 server contains considerable authoritative information concerning the IP addresses it has leased to DHCP clients. Sometimes devices or other processes may need access to this information. In some cases, these devices or processes already have the capability to send and receive DHCP packets, and so the leasequery protocol is designed to give these processes and devices a low-overhead way to access such information.
For example, access concentrators that act as DHCP relay agents sometimes derive information important to their operation by extracting data out of the DHCP packets they forward, a process known as "gleaning". Unfortunately, the typical access concentrator loses its gleaned information when the access concentrator is rebooted or is replaced. This memo proposes that when gleaned DHCP information is not available, the access concentrator/relay agent can obtain location information directly from the DHCP server(s) using the DHCPLEASEQUERY message.
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