DHCP4 failover pair hanging after startup

[Glenn Satchell]

>Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:00:05 +0000
>From: Evan Hunt <Evan_Hunt at isc.org>
>
>> This is very interesting, I didn't realise this was an option. Am I 
>> right in understanding that we would need to perform the omshell host 
>> create on both servers individually to add the host to each of the 
>> leases files? Also, I assume we would also need to append the hosts to 
>> the config file to make the change permanent?
>
>I believe that's correct.

A "dynamic" host entry gets added to dhcpd.leases, so the host entry
will be remembered next time. However, if you don't know to go and look
in the leases file then you may miss it when troubleshooting for
example.

regards,
-glenn