Can you elaborate on “a firewall is flakey”?  The hosts are physically diverse, each side has 1 master, and 2 slaves, all 3 on the same subnet.  Even those connections are on and off.  Is there any logging that can explain why this would be happening?

MAT


On 3/30/10 6:51 PM, "Quanah Gibson-Mount" <quanah@zimbra.com> wrote:

--On Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:23 PM -0600 Mathew Rowley
<mathew_rowley@cable.comcast.com> wrote:

> I have a setup with 2 masters (nway multimaster) and 4 slaves each having
> syncrepl set up to connect to the 2 masters.  The question I have, with
> the following configuration (on the slaves) should they always be
> connected to the masters?  Netstat is showing that the connections are
> intermittent:
>
> type=refreshAndPersist retry="60 +"
>
>
> Netstat on the masters shows that the connections from the slaves will
> vary – sometimes 0, sometimes 4 – seems to be somewhat random.  We
> are trying to determine if there is something wrong in our network.
> Thanks for the help.

Yes, that's what refreshAndPersist implies.  The connections from the
replica should stay connected to the provider, unless the network is flaky,
a firewall is timing them out, etc.  Or you stop/restart the slapd on
either side. ;)

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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