Hello, I'm a contributor for the node.js zookeeper module: https://github.com/yfinkelstein/node-zookeeper i'm using zk 3.3.3 for the purposes of this issue:
i'm having an issue when trying to connect when one of my zookeeper servers is offline. if the first server attempted is online, all is good. if the offline server is attempted first, then the client is never able to connect to _any_ server. inside zookeeper.c a connection loss (-4) is received, the socket is closed and buffers are cleaned up, it then attempts the next server in the list, creates a new socket (which gets the same fd as the previously closed socket) and connecting fails, and it continues to fail seemingly forever. The nature of this "fail" is not that it gets -4 connection loss errors, but that zookeeper_interest doesn't find anything going on on the socket before the user provided timeout kicks things out. I don't want to have to wait 5 minutes, even if i could make myself. this is the message that follows the connection loss: 2011-04-27 23:18:28,355:13485:ZOO_ERROR@handle_socket_error_msg@1530: Socket [127.0.0.1:5020] zk retcode=-7, errno=60(Operation timed out): connection timed out (exceeded timeout by 3ms) 2011-04-27 23:18:28,355:13485:ZOO_ERROR@yield@213: yield:zookeeper_interest returned error: -7 - operation timeout While investigating, i decided to comment out close(zh->fd) in handle_error (zookeeper.c#1153) now everything works (obviously i'm leaking an fd). Connection the the second host works immediately. this is the behavior i'm looking for, though i clearly don't want to leak the fd, so i'm wondering why the fd re-use is causing this issue. close() is not returning an error (i checked even though current code assumes success). i'm on osx 10.6.7 i tried adding a setsockopt so_linger (though i didn't want that to be a solution), it didn't work. i'm stumped. thoughts? there's full debug trace info here: https://github.com/yfinkelstein/node-zookeeper/issues/6 -w
