Old leader election can elect a dead leader over and over again ---------------------------------------------------------------
Key: ZOOKEEPER-131 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-131 Project: Zookeeper Issue Type: Bug Components: leaderElection Reporter: Benjamin Reed I think there is a race condition that is probably easy to get into with the old leader election and a large number of servers: 1) Leader dies 2) Followers start looking for a new leader before all Followers have abandoned the Leader 3) The Followers looking for a new leader see votes of Followers still following the (now dead) Leader and start voting for the dead Leader 4) The dead Leader gets reelected. For the old leader election a server should not vote for another server that is not nominating himself. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.