ISC DHCP server failover
Blake Covarrubias
blake at beamspeed.com
Wed Mar 17 21:08:24 UTC 2010
On Mar 17, 2010, at 7:22 AM, Dan White wrote:
> We've experienced two types of problems from time to time:
>
> The servers stop balancing their addresses, and one server starts to
> exhibit 'peer holds all free leases' in its logs, in which case we need to
> restart the dhcpd process(es) to force a rebalance.
We experience this problem from time to time as well, and I have yet to find its cause. We also 'fix' it by restarting the dhcpd daemon.
>
> In some cases, and I'm not sure which equipment may be to blame, if one
> server goes down then the other server will not hand out addresses to
> clients which had originally received addresses from the failed server.
> We've dealt with that by balancing our lease times with our MTTR for a
> failed server.
From the dhcpd.conf man page it seems the solution to this problem is to put the remaining active server into the PARTNER-DOWN state.
Aside from the 'peer holds all free leases' error Dan mentioned, ISC DHCP's load balancing and failover has worked very well for us.
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Blake Covarrubias
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