Michael Ströder wrote: Typically if a consumer receives an error it will disconnect and retry later. There's not much point making the consumer reconnect - which may be costly for a TCP session. If it's a refreshAndPersist consumer, it just needs to hang on and wait for some real data to arrive. Generally yes. A single-master setup has serverID=0. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/