<font size=2 face="sans-serif"> I have
been fighting an issue with HP printers, DDNS and our ISC based fail over
pair. I'm throwing this out on the list to document the symptoms
as I was unable to find a similar problem documented on this list or via
google.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> It
turns out there is one (1) model of HP printer that ALL give back the exact
same, non-null, non-unique, option 61 Client Identifier. This caused
some confusion on the fail over pair as much of the fail over communication
is based on option 61 being unique. What we first saw was a constant
change in theses printers IP's when more than one is on the same subnet,
as some of the printers kept getting the short lease time from the 'backup'
DHCP server. We also saw some of the printers just drop off the network
all together. I'm pretty sure this was due to IP conflicts.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Someone
that better understands the fail over communication can explain this but
what caused us to have to figure this out is the DHCP fail over pair started
deleting the wrong DNS entries. I'm sure it has to do with the fact
that one lease was expiring with the non-unique client identifier and when
that was communicated to the other DHCP server in the pair, it matched
it to the wrong lease in its database and then sent off the wrong DDNS
removal message.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> HP
is now aware of the issue, however I have yet to hear back on a fix for
the printer's firmware. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> So
I'm seeing this with this config:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> 1.
Non-unique Option 61 (root cause and what is broken)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> 2.
ISC based fail over pair</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> 3.
Fail over pair set to do DDNS on behalf of the client</font>
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<br><font size=5 color=blue><b>David A. Evans</b></font>
<br><font size=3><b>Enterprise IP/DNS Management</b></font>
<br><font size=3><b>Network Infrastructure Tools and Services</b></font>
<br><a href=mailto:Evans_David_A@cat.com><font size=3 color=blue><b><u>Evans_David_A@cat.com</u></b></font></a>