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Re: Intermittent network failures normal?

On 12/3/11 9:25 AM, Colin Percival wrote:

On 12/03/11 09:15, Jeff Rizzo wrote:

I haven't yet checked whether it's MAX_RECONNECTS or
MAX_RECONNECTS_AWOL that is being exceeded, but I'm curious whether this is
something others experience as well.  It makes nightly backups a hit-or-miss
affair...

Easy way to distinguish: If you're hitting MAX_RECONNECTS, you'll have several
"Connection list, waiting X seconds before reconnecting" messages printed first.


OK, then it's AWOL that's being hit.


I can easily enough bump those values in my own copy of the source to see if it
fixes things, but that's a bit of a maintenance issue for new versions.
Assuming bumping one or both of these fixes things for me, might it not be a
useful thing to be able to set in the config file or from the command line?

It shouldn't be necessary for you to increase those values... if you're hitting
them that often, something is broken somewhere.  Which ISP are you using?  Is it
possible that they're doing something nasty (like injecting RST packets)?
"Which ISP" is a complicated question. :) However, it's possible there's a packet filter or some such happening in there. I'll investigate further, but it sounds like it's probably an issue on my side. 

Thanks for the speedy response!

+j