Package: dhcp3-server
Version: 3.1.3-1
Severity: normal
I thought the bug was in the LDAP related patch but after burning two hours of
debugging time[1] I found that there is a bug in the failover code. When
setting up DHCP servers you might want to deploy the service in a failover'd
state[2].
Turns out when you do this the leases the lonesome DHCP server dishes out
has a lease lifetime set to zero; causing no end of troubles at the client
end with a "no expiry time on offered lease." error message.
Obviously one solution is "do not deploy a reduced failed-over setup",
however it's a bug that should be squished and the usual lease times should
be pushed out; failing that at lease some warning in the logfiles or maybe
in the documentation.
Cheers
[1] and only then annoyingly deciding to create a 'static' LDAP formed
dhcpd.conf file and run the dhcpd-noldap daemon off it
[2] much akin to installing an OS on a reduced RAID1
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dhcp3-server depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.30 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dhcp3-common 3.1.3-1 common files used by all the dhcp3
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
dhcp3-server recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dhcp3-server suggests:
ii dhcp3-server-ldap 3.1.3-1 DHCP server able to use LDAP as ba
-- debconf information:
* dhcp3-server/new_auth_behavior:
dhcp3-server/interfaces: bond0
dhcp3-server/new_next-server_behaviour:
dhcp3-server/config_warn:
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