[Kea-users] MySQL DB does not work when "lease-database" is set

Kevin Olbrich ko at sv01.de
Tue Jul 10 10:48:58 UTC 2018


I have now filed "Orphaned"-requests to the debian bugtracker to trigger
discussion on the packaging mailing list.

- Kevin

2018-06-14 14:54 GMT+02:00 Jason Guy <jguy at cumulusnetworks.com>:

> Hi Kevin,
>
> I can try the official channels again, but I am not sure the debian
> maintainers will help me to take over the package. Adam is really good and
> did all of the initial work, but seems to be too busy to care about this.
>
> Tomek,
>
> Do you know the current maintainer, or would you support me taking over
> the maintenance of the Debian package? I just want to satisfy the demand,
> and try to make these available to the Debian community.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 7:13 AM, Kevin Olbrich <ko at sv01.de> wrote:
>
>> Debian lists wnpp at debian.org as a contact for "work needing packages".
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>>
>> 2018-06-14 4:06 GMT+02:00 Jason Guy <jguy at cumulusnetworks.com>:
>>
>>> Hi Tomek,
>>>
>>> The debian maintainer (Adam) is not responsive. I packaged 1.3.0, and
>>> nagged him for 6 months to update the repo. He finally did in January, but
>>> he has not integrated any of my fixes for 1.3.0 since January. I have been
>>> running my 1.3.0 package in production for 6 months, and asked him
>>> repeatedly to give me the permissions to update the repo, and push the
>>> packages to stable. I am not sure what I can do... he does not seem to be
>>> taking this seriously. What is the next step?
>>>
>>> I will be starting the packaging of 1.4.0 next week.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jason
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Tomek Mrugalski <tomasz at isc.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> When talking to the Debian maintainer, you may also mention that 1.4.0
>>>> is around the corner. Unless we hit something very unexpected, it should
>>>> be released this Friday.
>>>>
>>>> Tomek
>>>>
>>>> On 13/06/2018 16:32, Kevin Olbrich wrote:
>>>> > Package version on debian is still 1.1.0 on all branches.
>>>> > I sent an email to the maintainer as 1.3.0 is the recommended release
>>>> > and 1.1.0 is some kind of "please do not use this anymore"-release.
>>>> >
>>>> > PS: I am on MariaDB 10.2 on both server and client. This might be the
>>>> > problem. I did not fix the problem yet as all leases are static. I
>>>> will
>>>> > look into this the coming weeks.
>>>> >
>>>> > Kind regards
>>>> > Kevin
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > 2018-03-19 14:26 GMT+01:00 Jason Guy <jguy at cumulusnetworks.com
>>>> > <mailto:jguy at cumulusnetworks.com>>:
>>>> >
>>>> >     Hi Kevin,
>>>> >
>>>> >     What version of mysql are you using? I have no problems with mysql
>>>> >     5.7 (client and server). Also, have you initialized the database?
>>>> >
>>>> >     Finally, I assume you are using version 1.1 because that it the
>>>> only
>>>> >     version available on Debian Apt... I am still trying to have the
>>>> >     maintainer take more of my patches, and push the 1.3 packages to
>>>> the
>>>> >     testing repo, but it is not going well. If anyone knows the
>>>> >     maintainer for this package, or has any advice about how to get
>>>> more
>>>> >     traction with the debian maintainer, I would be grateful. I have
>>>> >     done a lot of work to patch the 1.1 package to become the 1.3
>>>> >     package, and I am using in my testing. But I would like to make
>>>> this
>>>> >     available to all. :)
>>>> >
>>>> >     Cheers,
>>>> >     Jason
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >     On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 9:22 AM, Thomas Markwalder <tmark at isc.org
>>>> >     <mailto:tmark at isc.org>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >         Hello Kevin:
>>>> >
>>>> >         Kea is now up to version 1.3.0 with many new features added
>>>> >         since 1.1.0 so you may wish to consider upgrading.  However,
>>>> Kea
>>>> >         1.1.0 should function using MySQL for lease storage.  Kea
>>>> >         servers can emit a great deal of logging detail, provided you
>>>> >         have it enabled.   With sufficient logging enabled, you should
>>>> >         see some sort of response from Kea to client packets.  Even if
>>>> >         Kea elects to drop a packet, you should still it's arrival
>>>> >         logged and an explanation for why it was dropped.
>>>> >
>>>> >         I would suggest, as a starting point that you dial up the
>>>> >         logging detail.  The following logger configuration will give
>>>> >         you maximum output to stdout (for more information on logging
>>>> >         please see the Logging chapter in the Kea Admin guide):
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >         "Logging":
>>>> >         {
>>>> >           "loggers": [
>>>> >             {
>>>> >               "name": "kea-dhcp4",
>>>> >               "output_options": [
>>>> >                   {
>>>> >                     "output": "stdout"
>>>> >                   }
>>>> >               ],
>>>> >               "severity": "INFO",
>>>> >               "debuglevel":99
>>>> >             }
>>>> >           ]
>>>> >         }
>>>> >
>>>> >         I have attached a log excerpt from a Kea 1.1.0 server I
>>>> >         configured to use MySQL lease storage so you can see what to
>>>> expect.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >         Regards,
>>>> >
>>>> >         Thomas Markwalder
>>>> >         ISC Software Engineering
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >         On 03/18/2018 06:02 PM, Kevin Olbrich wrote:
>>>> >>         Hi,
>>>> >>
>>>> >>         I set the following as my lease-db:
>>>> >>
>>>> >>           "lease-database": {
>>>> >>             "type": "mysql",
>>>> >>             "name": "dc_dhcp",
>>>> >>             "host": "192.168.30.2",
>>>> >>             "user": "dc_dhcp",
>>>> >>             "password": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
>>>> >>         #        "type": "memfile",
>>>> >>         #        "persist": true,
>>>> >>         #        "name": "/tmp/kea-leases4.csv",
>>>> >>         #        "lfc-interval": 1800
>>>> >>           },
>>>> >>
>>>> >>         If I use MySQL, no lease is ever created. The server also
>>>> >>         never answers any DHCP request.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>         Changing from mysql to memfile (commented out code above),
>>>> >>         everything works fine.
>>>> >>         No error is logged, "it just dont work" with mysql.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>         root at dhcp01:~# kea-dhcp4 -v
>>>> >>         1.1.0
>>>> >>
>>>> >>         Debian Stretch, main repo.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>         Is this a known issue?
>>>> >>
>>>> >>         Kind regards,
>>>> >>         Kevin
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
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