Re: syncrepl - when master restarted, slaves loose connection forever (and never reconnects)?

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

This is ITS#4708, fixed in 2.3.28.

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> I decided to use syncrepl (refreshAndPersist) instead of slurpd to 
> synchronize.
>
> I made simple tests but something doesn't work right for me.
>
>
> I started a totally empty OpenLDAP slave - it got replicated
> from the master.
> Any change made on the master is also replicated fine.
>
>
> Unfortunately, when the connection between the slave and the master is 
> broken (i.e., master restarted), the slave never reconnects. According 
> to the fine slapd.conf manual, reconnection should be made quite fast:
>
>  "If the connection is lost, the consumer will attempt to reconnect
>  at an interval time (specified by interval parameter; 60 seconds by
>  default) until the session is re-established."
>
>
> I waited for about 12 hours, and it didn't happen.
> Restarting slave helped, and all pending changes were transferred from 
> the master.
>
> Am I missing a setting or something?
>
>
> The slave is running slapd from OpenLDAP 2.3.37, and here is its 
> slapd.conf part concerning syncrepl:


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