'peer holds all free leases' query

Nick Garfield Nicholas.Garfield at cern.ch
Mon Feb 26 10:44:53 UTC 2007


What values have you set for MCLT and default-lease-time? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org 
> [mailto:dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf Of Pete Clarke
> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 11:34 PM
> To: dhcp-users at isc.org
> Subject: Re: 'peer holds all free leases' query
> 
> > I am one of those, who regularly get 'peer holds all free leases'
> > message in dhcp log files in our failover environment. Occasionally,
> > I have to stop the daemon and purge lease database on one of the
> > server, when the problem gets particularly worse. We do use NTP to
> > sync time. I am using V3.0.4. Is there a feature in version after
> > 3.0.4 that can help to alleviate this issue? I do see a mention of
> > 'Failover servers try harder to retransmit binding updates upon
> > entering NORMAL state' in the release notes of 3.0.5rc2. Is 
> it related?
> 
> I also get a lot of these.
> I have a fairly complex setup, lots of pools (~9,000) in a 
> failover setup. I 
> get a lot of the "peer holds all free leases" messages.
> Server 2 doesn't seem to give any addresses out for certain pools.
> 
> Our setup is running 3.0.5 on Solaris. Would this just be 
> "one of those 
> things" - we can't simply down one box to purge the leases - 
> this is a 
> highly critical environment.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> 
> Cheers 
> 
> 
> 


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