dhcp failover

[Luis Ramirez]

I did the same, but my scripts did backed up leases data base and configuration file. We have run into some fail over situations and backing up the lease file has work very fine.

I could not configure ISC DHCP internal failover and developed my external failover with scripts. I used "ksh" as scripting engine and "ftp" to transfer the file on a pair of AIX servers.

I any one would like to take a look at my scripts you are welcome to ask for them. I haven't post them on any site, but I can try to post them on one if any one has a suggestion.

  Regards
Luis E. Ramírez Velarde
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-----Original Message-----
From: dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf Of Tony Aldo
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 2:00 AM
To: dhcp-users at isc.org
Subject: dhcp failover

Hi, I have a 2 node cluster using the Linux HA project.
I am not using any of DHCP's built in failover features but instead have
linux ha manage dhcp by keeping one node running dhcp at a time.
My question is, how bad is it not to mirror the leases databases between the
two servers?

Thanks
Tony