"Peer holds all free leases"

Glenn Satchell glenn.satchell at uniq.com.au
Mon Sep 6 11:52:55 UTC 2010


Seeing you're upgrading go for the latest: 4.1.1 or 4.2.0

More bug fixes and new features, esp for failover. dhcpd.conf should be 
compatible.

regards,
-glenn

On 09/06/10 20:47, Pooja Gada wrote:
>
>
> Jiri,
>
> I am currently using 3.0.7 . Will upgrade to 3.1.2 and test this issue.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pooja
>
>  >>> Jiri Popelka <jpopelka at redhat.com> 8/26/2010 5:09 PM >>>
> On 08/26/2010 01:09 PM, Pooja Gada wrote:
>
>> Hi ,
>>
>> I have been observing certain issues with the failover set up i
>> currently have.
>>
>>
>> I have been hitting this particular issue when i set the Split Value
>> to 255.
>>
>>
>> Initially the Address Allocation for the clients works fine , and the
>> primary and the failover server are always in sync.
>>
>>
>> Now when i bring down the primary server , secondary is not able to
>> allocate all of the IP addresses which are free in the pool, after a
>> certain time , it logs the message
>>
>> "Peer holds all free leases".
>>
>>
>> And i am certain that there are certain IP addresses which are in free
>> state and hence can be allocated , but are not allocated by the
>> secondary server.
>>
>> Now when i bring up the primary server , the primary is able to
>> allocate all of the remaining IP addresses.
>>
>>
>> Can you let me know what may be causing this issue ?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Pooja
>>
>
> What is the version of dhcp you are using ?
> This problem has been fixed in dhcp-3.1.2.
> See
> http://www.isc.org/files/release-notes/31esv.html
> for Changes since 3.1.1
> * A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free
> leases' if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
>
> Jiri Popelka
>



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