DHCP failover - disk full, can not commit to lease file

[Niall O'Reilly]

On 28 May 2013, at 14:27, Steven Carr wrote:

> How does the DHCP server know what the cause of the error is and why
> would it care? all it knows is that it had an problem writing to the
> lease file which could be caused by any number of issues not just a
> full disk.

	It shouldn't care about the cause of the error, but it
	should care that it's no longer working to specification
	since it no longer can write to persistent storage.

	Why would the message, "I'm down; carry on without me" to
	the failover partner be inappropriate in this case?

	ATB
	Niall O'Reilly