Peer rebalancing problems

[Norman Elton]

Sorry, I just discovered this nugget:

landlord01: peer wm-dhcp-01-02: Got POOLREQ, answering negatively!
Peer may be out of leases or database inconsistent.

I will start googling and post if I discover anything.

Thanks,

Norman

On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 3:41 PM Norman Elton <normelton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've seen references to this in previous posts, but no clear
> resolution. I've got two RHEL6 boxes (dhcp-4.1.1-63.P1.el6_10) setup
> in a failover pair. I discovered this morning that one server was
> stuck in "communications-interrupted" state. Turns out there were two
> dhcpd processes running simultaneously. Not sure how that happened,
> but shockingly, it wasn't happy.
>
> I've restarted both servers, we're back in normal failover state. But
> one of my subnets is still not balancing out:
>
> landlord01: balancing pool 55814b7e0ad0 WIRELESS-FACSTAFF  total 2970
> free 58  backup 320  lts -131  max-own (+/-)38
> landlord01: balanced pool 55814b7e0ad0 WIRELESS-FACSTAFF  total 2970
> free 58  backup 320  lts -131  max-misbal 57
> landlord02: balancing pool 55d8e05a4aa0 WIRELESS-FACSTAFF  total 2970
> free 353  backup 0  lts -176  max-own (+/-)35  (requesting peer
> rebalance!)
> landlord02: balanced pool 55d8e05a4aa0 WIRELESS-FACSTAFF  total 2970
> free 353  backup 0  lts -176  max-misbal 53
>
> It seems a little strange that both servers have a negative LTS value.
> And that they're so different. Is this explainable somehow?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Norman