why primary and secondary allocate same IP?
David W. Hankins
David_Hankins at isc.org
Fri Aug 11 19:52:16 UTC 2006
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 11:35:49AM -0700, VKR V wrote:
> Both the servers are in sync with NTP server. When I see date&time on SUN machine (on which my ISC is working) it is same on both the servers. I don't know why lease file of each server has different time. May be someone help me in knowing this.
you have 'load balance max seconds' configured.
this keys on the 'secs' BOOTP header field. if that field,
supplied by the DHCP client, exceeds the configured value,
then both servers will answer.
> Both the servers are communicating as they are on LAN and no port/switch is down. I can ping.
the only thing that matters is that both servers syslog to indicate
that they are in 'normal' state.
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Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. -- Jack T. Hankins
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