Re: Slave connecting to maser always stay connected?

[Mathew Rowley <mathew_rowley@cable.comcast.com>]

Title: Re: Slave connecting to maser always stay connected?

Can you elaborate on “a firewall is flakey”?  The hosts are physically diverse, each side has 1 master, and 2 slaves, all 3 on the same subnet.  Even those connections are on and off.  Is there any logging that can explain why this would be happening?

MAT


On 3/30/10 6:51 PM, "Quanah Gibson-Mount" <quanah@zimbra.com> wrote:

> --On Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:23 PM -0600 Mathew Rowley
> <mathew_rowley@cable.comcast.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a setup with 2 masters (nway multimaster) and 4 slaves each having
> > syncrepl set up to connect to the 2 masters.  The question I have, with
> > the following configuration (on the slaves) should they always be
> > connected to the masters?  Netstat is showing that the connections are
> > intermittent:
> >
> > type=refreshAndPersist retry="60 +"
> >
> >
> > Netstat on the masters shows that the connections from the slaves will
> > vary – sometimes 0, sometimes 4 – seems to be somewhat random.  We
> > are trying to determine if there is something wrong in our network.
> > Thanks for the help.
>
> Yes, that's what refreshAndPersist implies.  The connections from the
> replica should stay connected to the provider, unless the network is flaky,
> a firewall is timing them out, etc.  Or you stop/restart the slapd on
> either side. ;)
>
> --Quanah
>
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>
> Quanah Gibson-Mount
> Principal Software Engineer
> Zimbra, Inc
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