"...it repeats the data in database..."
Does that mean the same data is written twice or more to your database?
If so, i guess a bit :-( Can't you remember the mtime of dhcpd.leases and write the data only to your DB if dhcpd.leases was updated?
But this might get a little bit more complicated:
"...Every time a lease is acquired, renewed or released, its new value is recorded at the end of the lease file. So if more than one declaration appears for a given lease, the last one in the file is the current one..."
And:
"...In order to prevent the lease database from growing without bound, the file is rewritten from time to time. First, a temporary lease database is created and all known leases are dumped to it. Then, the old lease database is renamed /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases~. Finally, the newly written lease database is moved into place..."
See also dhcpd.leases.
Update: Net::ISC::DHCPd::Leases might be interesting. I didn't use it but perhaps it's worth to take a look at.
Regards, Karl
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