All,

I have been successfully using a federated network of Apache Qpid
brokers for some time now, we have had some problems along the way but
generally everything is working very well.  

I have a requirement to introduce more resilience to parts of the
network.  The (simplified) solution is this

"OPERATIONAL BEHAVIOUR"
1. SOURCE -> DESTINATION A : source sends messages to destination A
2. IF DESTINATION A FAILS THEN
3.      SOURCE -> DESTINATION B : source sends messages to destination B

We have a piece of hardware between the brokers so we refer to the
destination with a generic value (e.g. DESTINATION) and this returns the
correct hostname of the destination (i.e. A OR B).

The above scenario works very well if the source is an amqp publisher,
e.g. a JMS Client using AMQP syntax.

However if the source and destinations are qpid brokers and connected
via a queue route this does not work.

Let me try and explain my rather bizarre results...

1. SOURCE BROKER -> DESTINATION BROKER (hostname = A) - connected
successfully
2. STOP DESTINATION BROKER (hostname = A) 
3. Load Balancer now returns  hostname=B for DESTINATION BROKER
4. SOURCE BROKER shows connection refused to DESTINATION BROKER 


So maybe I can understand the above, the SOURCE has created a socket
connection to hostname A, and is not releasing it.

However if I stop and start the SOURCE broker, and re add the queue
route using SOURCE and DESTINATION I still get the connection refused
message, but hostname = B is running.  It is like the SOURCE broker is
still trying to connect to the DESTINATION (hostname = A), even after
restart.  That suggests to me that Qpid persists some connection
information throughout a restart.

Does this sound plausible?  If so where would the connection info be
stored?  FYI - I'm using version 0.8.

Thanks in advance 

Richard


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