Marking proxy servers as zombie - odd behaviour

[Bjørn Mork]

John Horne <john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk> writes:
> On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 17:54 +0200, Alan DeKok wrote:
>> John Horne wrote:
>> > Why does it think it looks like it is dead?
>> 
>>   Because the home server didn't respond to *another* request.
>> 
>>   Each request has a timer.  If the home server doesn't respond within
>> that time, then it is marked "zombie".
>> 
> Hmm. Given that the servers are lightly loaded, I guess we are looking
> at packet loss over the network? 

Or maybe some odd request the home servers refuse to answer?


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