Failover peer ignores some requests

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

Hi,
--On 8. Mai 2006 10:07:37 -0700 "David W. Hankins" <David_Hankins at isc.org> 
wrote:

> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:25:29PM +0200, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
>> May  8 13:50:06 noc2 dhcpd: pool 88af2f0 134.95.128/24 total 27  free 5
>> backup 0  lts 2
>>
>> Even that is unclear to me. Doesn't "free 5" mean that *this* peer has 5
>> free leases? Anyway, what's even more baffling is the behavior of the
>> other
>
> Well, yes, "free 5" means there are 5 free leases...but what you're
> missing out on is that the secondary can only allocate leases in the
> 'backup' state.

thanks for clearing that up.

> Only the primary can allocate leases in the 'free' state.
>
>> May  8 13:54:19 lvr13 dhcpd: pool 89be580 134.95.128/24 total 27  free 4
>> backup 1  lts -1
>
> It's pretty clear that your lease state databases are out of synch.

I'd read that that can happen, but didn't notice any problems until now.

> I'd upgrade to 3.0.4 (or wait until Jason completes testing and
> distributes a package).

I'm going to wait for an RPM.

> Before or after the upgrade (or both) you'll also need to fault the
> secondary's dhcpd.leases (stop dhcpd, rm it and touch a new one, start
> dhcpd).  The servers will transfer the lease database.  I should remind
> you the secondary will not answer queries for a time equal to MCLT - this
> is normal.

Thanks, I will try this later today.
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