Failover Questions

[Tina Siegenthaler]

Am 23.01.2007 um 18:19 schrieb David W. Hankins:

> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 09:59:47PM +1100, Glenn Satchell wrote:
>> I vaguely remember David Hankins posting some time ago that the  
>> actual
>> key used to determine the failover peer was the IP addresses and  
>> ports.
>> And that this was going to change in a later release (maybe  
>> 3.1.0?) to
>> actually use the peer name.
>
> That's correct, in 3.1.0 we use the peer name to find the failover
> session rather than the TCP socket's remote address.  The failover
> draft requires the name be used, so this was one of the changes
> while we were trying to sync up to -12.
>
> Note that there's also an MD5 digest authentication mechanism in
> failover (which we don't yet implement) which makes this look
> more like a 'username'.  It might be easier to think of it in
> that context.
>
> It's kind of unfortunate that 'failover peer "foo"' reads like the
> name of the peer rather than the name of the failover 'relationship'.
>
> -- 
> David W. Hankins	"If you don't do it right the first time,
> Software Engineer		you'll just have to do it again."
> Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.	-- Jack T. Hankins
>


Hi David, hi Glenn

Now I finally got it... I really misunderstood "failover peer" to be  
the name of the server on which dhcpd was running. So I'm going to  
change that.

Thanks for the clarification!

Tina