Failover dhcpd pair stuck in partner-down/shutdown state

[Eugene Grosbein]

04.01.2019 4:02, Bruce Hudson wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 11:12:49AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
>  
>> My question was not how to restore state but why it does not restore automatically?
> 
>     My apologies, I guess I skimmed your first port too quickly. The short
> answer is "design choice". There is a problem in redundant systems called
> "partioning" that cannot generally be solved with only two peers. To avoid it
> you need "half + 1" in the working set. ISC's answer was to make the process
> manual.

Thank you for explaining this. The problem is, the server(s) got stuck in this state
due to some obscure error all by itself.