Failover strangeness
Greg G
ggersh at ctc.net
Fri Oct 13 14:01:37 UTC 2006
Glenn Satchell wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:56:04 -0400
>> From: Greg G <ggersh at ctc.net>
>> To: dhcp-users at isc.org
>> Subject: Re: Failover strangeness
>>
>> David W. Hankins wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 12:28:30PM -0400, Greg G wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> STOS? I'm not familiar with that. I see a reference to it in the
>>>>
>>>>
>>> "Start Time Of Service" - the time at which the server entered
>>> a given state (in this case, partner-down).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I think that might be part of the problem. At no time is either
>> server going into partner-down. They never get out of
>> communications-interrupted. The man page says something about forcing a
>> server into partner-down, but never gives a specific enough example that
>> I can figure out how actually to do it via omapi. (I still can't figure
>> out how to open the partner state object.) I don't want to have to
>> restart the primary server to do it, as I'm somewhat allergic to editing
>> the lease file.
>>
>
> If the two servers never get out of communications-interrupted, then
> there is some sort of networking or configuration problem. If the two
> servers can communicate then they should move to normal pretty
> quickly.
>
>
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.
The secondary dhcp server is down, but the running server is still
showing as being in communications-interrupted. It never gets to
partner-down.
-Greg G
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