"peer holds all free leases" message
Nick Garfield
Nicholas.Garfield at cern.ch
Tue Mar 14 11:08:12 UTC 2006
All,
Simon is absolutely correct. Timinig is essential in this application.
Additionally, and unfortunately, as the max/min/default lease times are
reduced the problem you are seeing progressively gets worse. If you
have a very dynamic network (say lease time 30 minutes) you should
verify that the DHCP failover-protocol is stable enough to give your
network the added redundancy you are looking for.
I saw you are using MCLT ~1 hour. What is your default lease time?
Have you monitored the load on the two servers in normal
operation/degraded operation?
Nick Garfield
CERN
Geneva
Switzerland
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org
> [mailto:dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf Of Simon Hobson
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:37 AM
> To: dhcp-users at isc.org
> Subject: Re: "peer holds all free leases" message
>
> Kirsten Petersen wrote:
> >Another piece of information wrt this problem: in the course of
> >troubleshooting this, my colleague noticed that the time was way off
> >between the two servers - by an hour, actually.
> >
> >Could this time mismatch issue be responsible for the
> servers getting out
> >of sync with each other?
>
> It's come up many times on this list before, and IIRC, things don't
> work right unless the servers are within a couple of seconds. NTP is
> generally recommended - personally I'd recommend ntp anyway even if
> it wasn't required by the dhcp servers.
>
> Simon
>
>
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