Re: Update time for beacon
Mitch Kutzko wrote:
>At 10:35 PM 9/29/2004 +0200, jehan procaccia wrote:
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>>Mitch Kutzko wrote:
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>>>Hi, Derek -- It should be back, now, and you should show up if you haven't
>>>stopped your Beacon yet.
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>>>We're tracking a TCP connection bug (which may or may nore be related to
>>>Fedora Core 2 -- We're not sure at this point) which causes that Central
>>>Server Beacon to fall over periodically due to a number of odd-state,
>>>unclosed connections. It doesn't appear to affect "regular" Beacons, just
>>>whichever Beacon is running as the Central Server.
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>>I happen to be in the same situation, running a beacon centralserver on
>>a Fedora core 2 system , and I am also facing irregular results from my
>>server. I am struggling with firewall (iptables) rules, but not found a
>>correct configuration yet ... but maybe the problem is not firewall
>>configuration but "TCP connection bug" you mentionned above ?
>>If you have any advices, conlusions on this suspicious "bug?" , please
>>let me know, I will also if I finally update my doc on installing a
>>beacon client & server on FC2 :
>>http://www.int-evry.fr/mci/user/procacci/Doc/Beacon/beacon.html
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>Hi, Jehan -- I suspect the problem you're dealing with now is firewall
>related.
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>The TCP bug appears to cause the Central Server to fall over periodically
>(perhaps once in three or four days), but other than the ip_conntrack table
>on the Central Server overflowing and locking up further connections (to
>the central server), everything else appears to run fine. The "regular"
>clients don't appear to be affected, as you can see from their uptime entries.
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>Hope this helps!
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Yes, I can now surrely concentrate on firewall rules .. but what would
really help me would be a sample of your centralserver iptables rules
that allow beacon traffic to pass through .
if you can send them to me, i would really appreciate and hopefully get
my beacon server run correctly finnally ...
thanks.
>Mitch
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