I've setup dhcp-3.1.0 on two linux machines and everything appears to be working. The primary has a split of 255 so it's the preferred server. Almost had a heart attack the first time I reloaded the primary and I saw all the:
<br><br>... not responding (recover wait)<br><br>messages. I did some additional reading and realized this was normal as the server being reloaded will wait the duration of the MCLT before it comes back up. So I lowered the MCLT to lower the length of my heart problems after a reload.
<br><br>We have a monitoring application that requests an address from the server every few minutes and if it receives an offer, considers the service to be up. For all our networks we have helper-addresses configured on our routers to foward dhcp requests.
<br><br>My question is this: This application sends a request to each specific server. After the new server install, we've been receiving outage notices after the dhcp service is reloaded and is in recover wait state. Since this is a request to the specific server that is down and it's in recover wait state, it would seem that it does not "send" the request to it's peer. This would seem to mimic the behavior that acquired it's address from this server and attempts to renew.
<br><br>Is there something I'm missing in what the "recover wait" server is doing? I know it's waiting for the expiration of the MCLT but shouldn't clients be getting redirected (if that makes any sense) to the peer?
<br><br>Any information woudl be appreciated.<br><br><br><br><br><br>