yet another question about partner down

[Glenn Satchell]

Hi Brian,

I think you need local-state set to 4 for partner-down, 1 *is* startup,
so your script is doing what you told it to do.

This is taken from includes/failover.h

/* A failover peer's running state. */
enum failover_state {
        unknown_state                   =  0, /* XXX: Not a standard state. */
        startup                         =  1,
        normal                          =  2,
        communications_interrupted      =  3,
        partner_down                    =  4,
        potential_conflict              =  5,
        recover                         =  6,
        paused                          =  7,
        shut_down                       =  8,
        recover_done                    =  9,
        resolution_interrupted          = 10,
        conflict_done                   = 11,

regards,
-glenn

>From: Brian Johnson <voyager.106 at gmail.com>
>Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:25:18 -0400
>Subject: yet another question about partner down
>To: dhcp-users at isc.org
>
> Hello all,
> 
> We've recently deployed a new pair of failover dhcp servers, and I'm trying
> to test their ability to go into partner-down state. This is what I've done:
> 
> 1) gone to my secondary dhcp server, stopped dhcp
> 2) on my primary server, run a 'tail -f /var/log/messages | grep move', saw
> it go into communications-interrupted state
> 3) run the below script:
>    #!/bin/sh
>    omshell << EOF
>    server localhost
>    key itsomkey *<super-duper-secret key here>*
>    connect
>    new failover-state
>    set name = "name"
>    open
>    set local-state = 1
>    update
>    EOF
> 4) watch my tail -f to see what happens.
> 
> And, what seems to happen is, my primary server (the one that still had dhcp
> running....) goes from communications-interrupted to....startup. Eventually
> it goes back to c-i. But it never goes into partner-down.
> 
> Can someone let me know what I'm missing? Thanks.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> -- 
> Brian Johnson
> "And I will be even more undignified than this, and will be humble in my own
> sight." (2 Samuel 6:22)