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

Dear submitter,

as the package isc-dhcp has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1143544

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)