Re: Marking proxy servers as zombie - odd behaviour

John Horne wrote:

Hmm. Given that the servers are lightly loaded, I guess we are looking at packet loss over the network?

Yes. Many packets lost. The NAS re-transmits, FR re-transmits, and the home server doesn't respond. The default timeout before marking a home server zombie is 30s. If there aren't *any* responses to retransmits in 30s, something is very wrong.

Many thanks for all the replies. We always have at least one home server 'alive' according to FR so this has not been a problem for our users. It just seemed a bit odd behaviour when we looked into the log messages more closely.

I'll take a look at making the zombie code less aggressive. Alan DeKok.