"peer holds all free leases" message

[Nick Garfield]

There has been some debate about whether killing the daemon regularly is
or is not a good idea.  In theory, the daemon should be shut down gently
using omapi. We tried many things with no success.  However, I watch the
list to see if someone like yourself makes more mileage :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org 
> [mailto:dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf Of Kirsten Petersen
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 7:38 AM
> To: dhcp-users at isc.org
> Subject: Re: "peer holds all free leases" message
> 
> Duh.  I feel silly now.
> 
> We push frequent changes to the dhcp servers, and reboot them 
> whenever 
> something changes, which can be as often as every 5 minutes.  
> Is this a 
> Bad Idea?  Could this be what causes the servers to get out 
> of sync?  If 
> so, I guess we'll have to rethink our design...
> 
> ________________
> Kirsten Petersen
> Network Services * Oregon State University
> http://oregonstate.edu/net * irc.oregonstate.edu #osu-is
> "If you're not learning, you're not living."
> 
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Kirsten Petersen wrote:
> 
> > I don't see any BNDUPD messages, but I am seeing a lot of these:
> >
> > Oct  2 00:10:02 ns1 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: I move from normal to
> > communications-interrupted
> > Oct  2 00:10:06 ns2 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: I move from normal to
> > startup
> > Oct  2 00:10:06 ns1 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: I move from
> > communications-interrupted to startup
> > Oct  2 00:10:06 ns1 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: I move from 
> startup to
> > communications-interrupted
> > Oct  2 00:10:06 ns2 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: peer moves 
> from normal to
> > communications-interrupted
> > Oct  2 00:10:06 ns2 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: I move from 
> startup to
> > normal
> > Oct  2 00:10:06 ns1 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: peer moves 
> from normal to
> > normal
> > Oct  2 00:10:06 ns1 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: I move from
> > communications-interrupted to normal
> > Oct  2 00:10:06 ns2 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: peer moves from
> > communications-interrupted to normal
> > Oct  2 06:40:06 ns2 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: I move from normal to
> > startup
> > Oct  2 06:40:06 ns1 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: I move from
> > communications-interrupted to startup
> > Oct  2 06:40:06 ns1 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: I move from 
> startup to
> > communications-interrupted
> > Oct  2 06:40:06 ns2 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: peer moves 
> from normal to
> > communications-interrupted
> > Oct  2 06:40:06 ns2 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: I move from 
> startup to
> > normal
> > Oct  2 06:40:06 ns1 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: peer moves 
> from normal to
> > normal
> > Oct  2 06:40:06 ns1 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: I move from
> > communications-interrupted to normal
> > Oct  2 06:40:06 ns2 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: peer moves from
> > communications-interrupted to normal
> > Oct  2 08:00:02 ns1 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: I move from normal to
> > communications-interrupted
> > Oct  2 08:00:06 ns2 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: I move from normal to
> > startup
> > Oct  2 08:00:06 ns1 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: I move from
> > communications-interrupted to startup
> > Oct  2 08:00:06 ns1 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: I move from 
> startup to
> > communications-interrupted
> > Oct  2 08:00:06 ns2 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: peer moves 
> from normal to
> > communications-interrupted
> > Oct  2 08:00:06 ns2 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: I move from 
> startup to
> > normal
> > Oct  2 08:00:06 ns1 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: peer moves 
> from normal to
> > normal
> > Oct  2 08:00:06 ns1 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: I move from
> > communications-interrupted to normal
> > Oct  2 08:00:06 ns2 dhcpd: failover peer dhcp: peer moves from
> > communications-interrupted to normal
> >
> >
> > The times are synchronized on the two servers.
> >
> > ________________
> > Kirsten Petersen
> > Network Services * Oregon State University
> > http://oregonstate.edu/net * irc.oregonstate.edu #osu-is
> > "If you're not learning, you're not living."
> >
> > On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, David W. Hankins wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 09:55:05AM -0700, Kirsten Petersen wrote:
> >>> primary:
> >>> active: 2572
> >>> backup: 5835
> >>> free: 4543
> >>> expired: 2591
> >>> released: 3
> >>>
> >>> secondary:
> >>> active: 2577
> >>> backup: 5834
> >>> free: 4517
> >>> expired: 2586
> >>> released: 4
> >>
> >> Huh.  I'm not sure what's going on here.  Are you getting any
> >> BNDUPD failures logged to syslog?  Any failover sylogs at all?
> >>
> >> --
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> >> --
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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