[Outages-discussion] Internet Outage Hits Time Warner Customers in southern California - now up

[Eric Spaeth]

Unless you're actively dividing up the scopes across various DHCP 
servers, generally you're relying on a centralized DB to store the 
bindings so that all the DHCP servers can source IPs from a common 
pool.  All the clustering in the world doesn't help you if the DB itself 
gets corrupted.

Not saying that's what happened here, but it's a scenario I've run into 
in the past.

-Eric

On 8/29/2011 8:36 AM, Frank Bulk wrote:
> I don't understand how they could lose a DHCP server/cluster, unless it
> wasn't designed with HA in mind.
>
> Frank
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Frank Bulk"<frnkblk at iname.com>
>> Anyone want to speculate what happened here? Routing to a DHCP or TFTP
>> server? Something else?