failover with 3.1.0, daemon quietly dies
Robert Gehr
robert.gehr at baumann-gmbh.de
Fri Sep 14 08:37:24 UTC 2007
Thanks mate, that was it. Works all right now.
dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:28:39AM +0200, Robert Gehr wrote:
>> Sep 11 16:05:12 bafs2 dhcpd: failover peer bafs2: I move from
>> communications-interrupted to startup
>> Sep 11 16:05:12 bafs2 dhcpd: Failover CONNECT from unknown: unknown
> server
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>> Sep 11 16:05:11 baadm1 dhcpd: failover peer baadm1: I move from startup
>> to communications-interrupted
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> 'bafs2' and 'baadm1' do not match. I think the 'CONNECT from unknown'
> log message could be improved - we get the remote system's peer name,
> we can log that it doesn't match any configured name.
>
> Anyway.
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> In 3.1.0, we synched the failover implementation up to draft level
> 12 (coming short in a few details). One of the details we complied
> with was that failover relationships be identified by name - not by
> peer IP address as was done in 3.0.x.
>
> This means that two systems with the same peer IP addresses can have
> multiple failover relationships (and then multiple TCP sockets) if
> you choose. It also means that we'll be able to add failover
> authentication soon (the peer name is a sort of 'username' half of
> the authentication).
>
> But it also means that the failover peer 'name' fields have to match
> on both sides (which they were supposed to all along).
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> Shutdown one server. Edit dhcpd.conf to the remote system's peer
> name. Edit dhcpd.leases and search for 'failover peer "name" state',
> and change it as well.
>
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