On Wednesday 13 May 2015 13:10:47 Debra S Baddorf wrote:
> Several of us have problems where TCP based connections to nodes that
> are down. (depending on the “auth” method in use) take long enough to
> timeout  that they cause failures on other nodes which are NOT down.
>        I have older nodes which are still using udp connections, which
> do not ever have this problem. Does this sound like it may be involved
> in your case?  “auth=bsdtcp”  is the default  with all the modern
> versions of amanda.     I have the problem if the node down is  
> “auth=bsdtcp”  or “auth=krb5”  but not on the  “auth=bsd” nodes.
>
> Deb Baddorf
> Fermilab

And I am using bsdtcp, so this fits the observed bahviour to a T.  Can 
this timeout be adjusted, or amanda somehow reconfigured to tolerate it 
better?  Currently:

ctimeout = 4 (was 7, but both machines respond much quicker than that)

dtimeout = 1200 (this is 40 minutes, but with decent sata drives could 
shrink even more)

etimeout = 300 (I don't recall the mode ATM, may be client estimate, its 
quick)

I don't see anything else in the manpage that looks applicable.

Thanks Deb.  With that machine alive last night, it all Just Worked(TM).

> On May 13, 2015, at 8:49 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Greetings all;
> >
> > Running 3.3.7p1 on assorted client installs.
> >
> > No clue why, but it appears that one of the machines (alias "shop")
> > in the shop crashed last night, sometime after I closed up for the
> > evening. I've also lost my ssh -Y link to it, and no ping response.
> >
> > When amdump ran, it was of course un-available.
> >
> > But that seems to have killed the backups for this machine too, as
> > was only able to backup the lathe.
> >
> > amcheck, when I ran it just now, only reported;
> > "WARNING: shop: selfcheck request failed: No route to host"
> > One problem.
> >
> > But amdump totally failed this machine, "coyote", too. What sort of
> > gremlins might do that?
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > --
> > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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