Failover dhcpd pair stuck in partner-down/shutdown state

[Eugene Grosbein]

03.01.2019 0:38, Bruce Hudson wrote:

>     This may be a silly question but, have you tried to change the server
> state manually? You said you restarted the server. However, as you pointed
> out, a "failover peer" stanza is added to the lease file and should put
> the server back into its previous state as soon as the lease file is
> processed. Was there an existing "failover peer" stanza in your file?

Yes, it was.

>     One way to restore your state would be through OMAPI, assuming you
> have the listener configured. You want to run something like the code
> below on each server. 

My question was not how to restore state but why it does not restore automatically?

>     The other way might be to shut down the server and edit the lease file
> before restarting it.

That's what I did and described in my first port.