Hi All, The 'proper' solution IMO is Peter's first suggestion. The firewall is doing it's job and forced wrapper timeouts can be a bit of a bodge.
We're lowering the inactivity timeout on our data source servers (MySQL and openLDAP - we're seeing the same thing on both connections) to around 5 minutes - no real reason why it should be higher. Our client code will then be able to detect a gracefully terminated connection and reconnect without a hang. Thanks for everyones help on this. Chris --- "Peter J. Holzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-03-23 07:26:35 -0600, Jones Robert Civ TTMS > Keesler wrote: > > If this is due to a timeout issue then you > want to increase the timeout > > settings on your system. That would be something > you will need to configure > > on the client side in the OS settings. > > No, he would have to configure that on the firewall: > > > > > A firewall is terminating my connection with a > mysql > ^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > database after a period of inactivity. > > The firewall is probably not under his control, > though (Even if it is, > it may not be feasible to increase the timeout to a > large enough value). > > The best solution is probably to use some keepalive > mechanism. TCP > keepalive would be the simplest, but there is no > obvious way to enable > it on either the client or the server side, so he > has to change his > application to issue a dummy query every $n minutes. > > > hp > > -- > _ | Peter J. Holzer \Beta means "we're down to > fixing misspelled comments in > |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR \the source, and you might > run into a memory leak if > | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \you enable embedded > haskell as a loadable module and > __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ \write your plugins > upside-down in lisp". [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
