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<div>I’m experiencing some issues with my redundant ISC DHCP setup, I’m using version “dhcp-4.1-ESV-R4”, compiled with “--enable-delayed-ack”.</div>
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<div>The issue I’m experiencing is that the balancing suddenly stops and never restores correctly, and a such only half of my clients get IP addresses assigned. I debugged this currently to the stage that one of the DHCP servers get’s into the “communications-interrupted”
state and therefore does not allow to balance the pool (I think). Sometimes it takes 2 weeks, sometime a few days before the servers gets into this state. Restarting dhcpd resolves this issue.</div>
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<div>In the slave log, I get the warning “Got POOLREQ, answering negatively! Peer may be out of leases or database inconsistent.”</div>
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<div>In the master log, I get the warning ”pool response: 0 leases”</div>
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<div>Under normal operations I see the master logging “balancing pool 8fe8f68 192.168.6.0/24 total 241 free 20 backup 81 lts -30 max-own (+/-)10” every hour, once I start experiencing this issue the log is changed into “balancing pool 8fe8f68 192.168.6.0/24
total 241 free 19 backup 81 lts -31 max-own (+/-)10 (requesting peer rebalance!)” Which I think means it gets to a critical available lease threshold. </div>
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<div>What could be causing this issue? I couldn’t find anything in the release notes of dhcp-4.1-ESV-R11 which explicitly points to this issue, so I’m not sure whether upgrading makes sense.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>Tom</div>
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