I've been reading the blog, and trying to understand the high-level view 
of how AMP works.  Good stuff in the blog by the way!

So, sorry this question is pretty basic.  What I gather is that if a 
service drops out of the netstat listener table, AMP will catch that, or 
if a listener process dies, AMP will catch that too.  But do the Minions 
make periodic test connections to services to see if those services are 
still actually available and answering incoming connection requests?

What I'm thinking of here is if a service process is still up and 
running, and it's listener port info is still listed in the netstat 
table, but due to a bug, or misconfiguration, or whatever reason is not 
actually answering incoming connection requests anymore, do the ring 
neighbor minions notice?  I don't mean to sound nit-picky at all, I'm 
just trying to understand what AMP is actually doing.  :-) Maybe in 
practice services don't really go "zombie" like that without also 
dropping out of the process table and/or netstat available services 
table, etc.?  Sorry if I'm using the wrong terms and names for things here.

The story in the blog about reallocating staff to fix bugs in the pbx 
project before the impending release was cool.  Nice solution. :-)

--robert
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