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Vishal K commented on ZOOKEEPER-928:
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sorry for the false alarm. I got confused since SocketChannel is used in 
quorumCnxManager but this part of the code uses Socket and InputArchive.

> Follower should stop following and start FLE if it does not receive pings 
> from the leader
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ZOOKEEPER-928
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-928
>             Project: Zookeeper
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: quorum, server
>    Affects Versions: 3.3.2
>            Reporter: Vishal K
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 3.3.3, 3.4.0
>
>
> In Follower.followLeader() after syncing with the leader, the follower does:
>                 while (self.isRunning()) {
>                     readPacket(qp);
>                     processPacket(qp);
>                 }
> It looks like it relies on socket timeout expiry to figure out if the 
> connection with the leader has gone down.  So a follower *with no cilents* 
> may never notice a faulty leader if a Leader has a software hang, but the TCP 
> connections with the peers are still valid. Since it has no cilents, it won't 
> hearbeat with the Leader. If majority of followers are not connected to any 
> clients, then FLE will fail even if other followers attempt to elect a new 
> leader.
> We should keep track of pings received from the leader and see if we havent 
> seen
> a ping packet from the leader for (syncLimit * tickTime) time and give up 
> following the
> leader.

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