Re: backhand selects a different host but then executes locally - and shows port 0 in /backhand/

"Theo E. Schlossnagle" <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:05:48 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-backhand.general
Organization Center for Networking and Distributed Systems
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thomas Buehren wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> using balanced_by_mod_backhand/1.2.0 on both machines (instead of mixing
> 1.2.2 and 1.2.0) works!
> 
> I am only surprised about one thing: Both machines show 1056559794 as "Age"
> for themselves (the other one is always 1 or 0).
> 
> Is this a problem, for example with byAge which should remove crashed hosts?
> 
> And: Can I use 1.2.0 without fear or are there really important improvements
> or removed-bugs in 1.2.2? The ChangeLog lists some bugs with byBusyChildren
> but the rest seems to be not sooo important (to me).

I would run 1.2.2 :-)  Bug are bugs.. and you should run with them if you know 
they are there.

The age would be wrong if the machine can't "see itself".  Sounds like the 
broadcast or multicast address you specified is not working correctly.


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