dhcpd failover server gives misleading error

Daniel Grandjean Daniel.Grandjean at epfl.ch
Thu Aug 7 15:25:24 UTC 2008


Hello,

I'm running the latest 3.1.1 in failover mode.
I've upgraded from 3.0.3

I got the following message.

DHCPDISCOVER from 00:1c:23:15:2e:c7 via aaa.bbb.ccc.252: peer holds all 
free leases

After spending a lot of time watching the lease file content, the 
failover protocol and so on, (and found no problems)


         pool {
           failover peer "dhcp";
           deny dynamic bootp clients;
           deny members of "win2k-clients";
           range aaa.bbb.ccc.151 aaa.bbb.ccc.160;
           default-lease-time 57600;
           max-lease-time 61200;
           min-lease-time 7200;
         }

I appear that the 00:1c:23:15:2e:c7 client belongs to the denied class
win2k-clients.

So the logged message is misleading and scary for the admin and 
monitoring scripts  ;-)

Is this a configuration issue?

Regards.
Daniel.


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