Failover host stops releasing IP's if the peer is down.

[p0wn3rs]

Hello,
yes, now it's getting the IP's.
Is there a way to "timeout" the surviving server and set it on 
partner-down automatically?
thanks.

On 12/9/19 2:04 PM, Simon Hobson wrote:
> p0wn3rs <p0wn3rs at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> we have different DHCP clusters and sometimes happens for a system to
>> be
>> down for a long time (the location doesn't grant us immediate physical
>> access and the hw doesn't support WOL).
>> Whenever this happens the main host stops releasing IP's...
>>
>> Dec  9 10:39:36 fw-01 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:a0:ba:0f:d6:ff via
>> br1: not responding (recovering)
>> Dec  9 10:39:37 fw-01 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:a0:ba:0f:d7:29 via
>> br1: not responding (recovering)
> I think you have your terminology wrong. It is not offering a lease, "release" in DHCP terminology has a very different meaning.
>
> What happens if you put the surviving server into partner-down state ? It should then take over the whole pool and act like a single server. When the peer comes back up, they should automatically recover.
>
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