DHCP Server Offline.

[Stephan Weaver]

I Found out the Problem,
The /var partation is full.
How do i find out where is taking up all the space?


Thanks

>From: Ean Kingston <ean at hedron.org>
>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>CC: stephanweaver at hotmail.com
>Subject: Re: DHCP Server Offline.
>Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:18:09 -0400
>
>On July 15, 2005 10:11 am, Stephan Weaver wrote:
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > I have a Stand Alone FreeBSD Firewall / Nat / Dhcp Server.
> > Everything seems to work fine, up until this morning.
> > Users seem to complain they could not get on the network anymore.
> >
> > Further investigation revealed the dhcp server could not be contacted.
> > Further more, only some of the users were online.
> > I am guessing that these clients who were online had an ip address from 
>the
> > dhcp server at a previous time and the lease didnt expire as yet.
> > And users who were not online, the lease expired and attempted to 
>contact
> > the dhcp server and failed.
> >
> > I Would appreciate any help or suggestions.
>
>Set the lease expire time to at least 5 days (7 to 10 is better) and the
>renewal time to between 4 and 12 hours.
>
>Then setup a dhcp monitoring process that will alert you if it fails to get 
>an
>address or renewal.
>
>Make sure you have more addresses available than you ever expect to give 
>out.
>I go with 50% more. I've known some admins that want at least double.
>
> > Like what to do in the future incase this happens again.
>
>Setup 2 dhcp servers on the network. If one fails, the other will hopefully
>continue to serve addresses. Monitor this one as well.
>
> > I Would like to find out what had happened.
>
>Start reading logs.
>
> > The last thing that i had done to the server was setup, configure and
> > install 'ntop';
> > dont know if this would cause a problem.
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> > Stephan Weaver
> >
> > P.S. Please reply to my Directly at @
> > stephanweaver at hotmail.com
>
>--
>Ean Kingston
>
>E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org
>URL: http://www.hedron.org/
>I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network
>administration please feel free to contact me directly.

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