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Originally Posted by wodin
One (Echo Dot) out of 30 devices lost it's DHCP lease, rebooting the router (DHCP server) forces all devices, including the Dot to renew their lease.
Renewing the lease of the devices that have active leases is transparent, but the one that doesn't have a stable lease magically gets picked back up. Kind of like shooting a mosquito with a shotgun, only one pellet gets the mosquito, but the rest of them take out the whole wall.
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Sounds plausible. But with DD-WRT installed on the router, I have full control of the dhcp leases. I can cancel the leases on individual devices and force them to renegotiate with the router for a new one. I'd done this already for the Dot in question. Which is one more reason why rebooting the router didn't occur to me.
Who knows? Maybe the dhcp server was stuck on stupid and
none of the other devices would have been able to properly negotiate a new dhcp lease had theirs expired.