failover peer declaration with no referring pools.

[Defryn, Guy]

Hi,

It seems like I just managed it to go. Looks like there was a problem with using the original leases file.
I created an empty leases file and dhcpd started fine. Afterwards I stopped dhcpd, copied over original
leases file and restarted without any issues.
Not sure if this is the correct procedure but it seems to work now.
Will get back to you if I have more problems

cheers.





Guy Defryn

Infrastructure Development Engineer
Information Technology Services
Tennant Drive
Palmerston North

06-3505799 ext 2087
________________________________________
From: Glenn Satchell [Glenn.Satchell at uniq.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 19 November 2008 10:18 p.m.
To: Defryn, Guy
Subject: Re: failover peer declaration with no referring pools.

Are you using the same version of dhcp on both servers?

Can you please post your dhcpd.conf, or at least a representative
sample from it? We would need to see global declarations and, say, a
couple of subnets if you have lots.

regards,
-glenn

>From: "Defryn, Guy" <G.P.Defryn at massey.ac.nz>
>To: "dhcp-users at isc.org" <dhcp-users at isc.org>
>
>Hi guys,
>
>Need some urgent help here.
>
>I am creating a new dhcp server. I copied over leases file from old one to new
one
>and stopped the server. My network and host file are in place too.
>I updated the new server with the same IP address and hostname as the old
server had.
>My configuration file is still the same. When I start dhcp though I run into
some problems
>
>Any ideas??
>
>cheers
>
>Log entry
>
>Nov 19 20:41:53 tur-net2 dhcpd: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server V3.1.0
>Nov 19 20:41:53 tur-net2 dhcpd: Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems
Consortium.
>Nov 19 20:41:53 tur-net2 dhcpd: All rights reserved.
>Nov 19 20:41:53 tur-net2 dhcpd: For info, please visit
http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
>Nov 19 20:41:53 tur-net2 dhcpd: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server V3.1.0
>Nov 19 20:41:53 tur-net2 dhcpd: Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems
Consortium.
>Nov 19 20:41:53 tur-net2 dhcpd: All rights reserved.
>Nov 19 20:41:53 tur-net2 dhcpd: For info, please visit
http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: Wrote 0 class decls to leases file.
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: Wrote 0 deleted host decls to leases file.
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: Wrote 0 new dynamic host decls to leases file.
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: Wrote 13551 leases to leases file.
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: Listening on
LPF/eth0/00:50:56:97:3a:bd/130.123.128/23
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: Sending on
LPF/eth0/00:50:56:97:3a:bd/130.123.128/23
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: failover peer wel-dhcp-failover: I move from
communications-interrupted to startup
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: failover peer declaration with no referring
pools.
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: In order to use failover, you MUST refer to
your main failover declaration
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: in each pool declaration.   You MUST NOT use
range declarations outside
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: of pool declarations.
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd:
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: If you did not get this software from
ftp.isc.org, please
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: get the latest from ftp.isc.org and install
that before
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: requesting help.
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd:
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: If you did get this software from ftp.isc.org
and have not
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: yet read the README, please read it before
requesting help.
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: If you intend to request help from the
dhcp-server at isc.org
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: mailing list, please read the section on the
README about
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: submitting bug reports and requests for help.
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd:
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: Please do not under any circumstances send
requests for
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: help directly to the authors of this software -
please
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: send them to the appropriate mailing list as
described in
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: the README file.
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd:
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: exiting.
>Nov 19 20:41:54 tur-net2 dhcpd: dhcpd startup failed
>
>
>
>Guy Defryn
>
>Infrastructure Development Engineer
>Information Technology Services
>Tennant Drive
>Palmerston North
>
>06-3505799 ext 2087
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