> On Jun 18, 2015, at 11:29 PM, Larry Sheldon <larryshel...@cox.net> wrote: > >> On 6/18/2015 16:25, Jonas Björk wrote: >> >>> Because clients will switch to unicast for renewal. Also clients will stay >>> with the current server forever, so you might have a bad distribution of >>> load between the servers. If one server was down everyone will switch to >>> the other and never go back until forced. >> >> Why wouldn't they go back to the nearest server when it comes back online? > > Been awhile, but it seems like they try to "renew" the lease they have, with > the server that holds it. > > -- > sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Juvenal)
The clients speak unicast with one single ip-helper which address is shared by all the servers. They can't choose which ever server to talk to.
