On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Jeff Moyer wrote:

> Hello, Ian, list,
> 
> You may recall my asking for the rpc_ping function to take TCP only servers
> into account.  Well, be careful what you ask for!  Now, if a server is down
> in a replicated server configuration, it takes quite a while to timeout
> due to the TCP connect.  The mount will eventually succeed, but I've seen
> this take up to 10 minutes.

I'm not sure that I see that same behaviour in my test environment.

I'll check and get back.
It's probably best if we understand this a little better before jumping 
in.

> 
> Perhaps we should first test to see if a host is reachable at all before we
> begin our rpc pings?

Sigh!

Will the fall out from the replicated server implementation it never end.

Ian

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