Trouble setting up a failover dhcp-server

[Simon Hobson]

budiw at rootbox.or.id wrote:
>  >  Well, one place the "domain-name-servers" are given by name, not by IP.
>>
>>  Some clients may be smart enough to reject that because they will never
>>  get started, who should resolve those names for them?
>>
>>
>>
>
>Oh ic, I should replace the line:
>  option domain-name-servers a.ns1.rootbox.or.id, a.ns2.rootbox.or.id;
>
>with
>  option domain-name-servers 203.114.226.34, 203.114.226.30;

Actually using names is OK - the DHCP server will resolve them to IPs 
when it loads the config. The same applies (AFAIK) everywhere an IP 
address is normally used, you can use a FQDN and the server will 
resolve it at config load time.

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