Option 4, turn off authoritative if we don’t want NAK’s?

doug

> On May 25, 2015, at 7:35 PM, Kevin Benton <blak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> A recent change[1] to pass '--dhcp-authoritative' to dnsmasq has caused 
> DHCPNAK messages when multiple agents are scheduled to a network [2].
> 
> This was back-ported to Icehouse and Juno so we need a fix that is compatible 
> with both of them.
> 
> I have two fixes for this so far and a third alternative if we don't like 
> those.
> 
> The first is hacky, but it's only a few-line change.[3] It adds an iptables 
> rule that just stops the DHCPNAKs from making it to the client. This is clean 
> to back-port but it doesn't protect clients that have filtering disabled 
> (e.g. bare metal).
> 
> The second persists the DHCP leases to a database.[4] The downside to this 
> was always that being rescheduled to another agent would mean no entries in 
> the lease file. This approach adds a work-around to generate an initial fake 
> lease file based on all of the ports in the network.
> 
> A third approach that I don't have a patch pushed for yet is very similar to 
> the second. When dnsmasq is in the leasefile-ro mode, it will call the script 
> passed to --dhcp-script to get a list of leases to start with. This script 
> would be built with the same logic as the second one. The only difference 
> between the second approach is that dnsmasq wouldn't persist leases to a 
> database.
> 
> 
> I'm looking for feedback on how we want to go forward with this in a 
> back-port friendly manner.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin Benton
> 
> 
> 1. 
> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/Ieff0236670c1403b5d79ad8e50d7574c1b694e34,n,z
>  
> <https://review.openstack.org/#/q/Ieff0236670c1403b5d79ad8e50d7574c1b694e34,n,z>
> 2. https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1457900 
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1457900>
> 3. https://review.openstack.org/#/c/185332/ 
> <https://review.openstack.org/#/c/185332/>
> 4. https://review.openstack.org/#/c/185486/ 
> <https://review.openstack.org/#/c/185486/>
> 
> -- 
> Kevin Benton
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