[Dovecot] restarting director

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 13:42 -0400, Cor Bosman wrote:
> Hi all, anyone having any problems with restarting the director? Every
> time I bring down 1 of the director servers, reboot it, or just
> restart it for whatever reason, im seeing all kinds of problems.
> Dovecot generally always gives me this error:
> 
> Jan 20 22:49:55 imapdirector3 dovecot: director: Error: Director
> 194.109.26.173:444/right disconnected before handshake finished

I'm not sure if that itself is a problem..

> It seems the directors cant agree on forming a ring anymore, and this
> may be leading to problems with clients. I mostly have to resort to
> bringing down all directors, and restarting them all at once. Not
> really a workable solution.  As an example, last night for a few hours
> we were getting complaints from customers about being disconnected,
> and the only obvious error in the log was the one above, after one of
> my colleagues had to restart a director because of some changes in the
> syslog daemon. After I restarted all directors withing a few seconds
> of each other, all complaints disappeared.

I can take a look at it, but it would help if you were able to reproduce
the problem. I'm still lagging a lot behind in emails (=bugfixes)..

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