reopen 513506 reassign 513506 release-notes thanks On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:23:45PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > severity 513506 minor > retitle 513506 dhcp3-server: Mention new failover peer naming rules in > NEWS.Debian / Crash if config doesn't abide to them > thanks > > In the meanwhile I found the problem and made the config conforming to > new naming rules for failover peers of 3.1.x. Since then also the > crashes are gone. > > https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2007-September/004538.html > > describes what went wrong. > > With 3.0.x peer names only had to be consistent per host. > > So on stock we had "failover peer ruchen" defined and on ruchen we had > "failover peer stock" defined for the same failover > connection. Relevant for the right connections were the address parts. > > 3.1.x allows multiple failover peer connections per IP address, so the > name became relevant. I named the failover peer connection the same on > both sides and it worked again. > > So what remains are two minor issues (lowered severity accordingly) > with this package: > > 1) Please mention this quite heavy tripwire in NEWS.Debian for Lenny, > because this can hurt others who dist-upgrade from Etch, too.
I've uploaded a new revision that mentions this, but I doubt it'll make
Lenny due to the tight binding with d-i. Cc'ing the release team for
confirmation.
I'm reopening this and reassigning it to release notes so at the very least
it can get mentioned there.
> 2) The crash only happens on unexpected input in the dhcpd.conf, so
> it's at most a minor programming error (which is still present in
> 3.1.2 btw.)
>
> How to reproduce the crash:
>
> Host A:
>
> failover peer "b" {
> primary;
> address a;
> peer address b;
> split 128; # only on primary
> }
>
> Host B:
>
> failover peer "a" {
> secondary;
> address b;
> peer address a;
> }
>
> Correct configuration not triggering the crash:
>
> Host A:
>
> failover peer "ab" {
> primary;
> address a;
> peer address b;
> split 128; # only on primary
> }
>
> Host B:
>
> failover peer "ab" {
> secondary;
> address b;
> peer address a;
> }
>
> Kind regards, Axel Beckert
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>
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