'peer holds all free leases' query

[Pete Clarke]

mclt 1800
default lease time is 30mins

Cheers

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Garfield" <Nicholas.Garfield at cern.ch>
To: <dhcp-users at isc.org>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 10:44 AM
Subject: RE: 'peer holds all free leases' query


> What values have you set for MCLT and default-lease-time? 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org 
>> [mailto:dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf Of Pete Clarke
>> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 11:34 PM
>> To: dhcp-users at isc.org
>> Subject: Re: 'peer holds all free leases' query
>> 
>> > I am one of those, who regularly get 'peer holds all free leases'
>> > message in dhcp log files in our failover environment. Occasionally,
>> > I have to stop the daemon and purge lease database on one of the
>> > server, when the problem gets particularly worse. We do use NTP to
>> > sync time. I am using V3.0.4. Is there a feature in version after
>> > 3.0.4 that can help to alleviate this issue? I do see a mention of
>> > 'Failover servers try harder to retransmit binding updates upon
>> > entering NORMAL state' in the release notes of 3.0.5rc2. Is 
>> it related?
>> 
>> I also get a lot of these.
>> I have a fairly complex setup, lots of pools (~9,000) in a 
>> failover setup. I 
>> get a lot of the "peer holds all free leases" messages.
>> Server 2 doesn't seem to give any addresses out for certain pools.
>> 
>> Our setup is running 3.0.5 on Solaris. Would this just be 
>> "one of those 
>> things" - we can't simply down one box to purge the leases - 
>> this is a 
>> highly critical environment.
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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