[Buildbot-devel] Re: NAT issues fixed?

[Brian Warner]

> As a matter of interest, any luck in fixing the NAT issues we
> were having with our slaves in the SpamAssassin buildbot?
> Are they still a problem in this release?

Are you referring to the need for a retry-SVN-once-because-the-network-failed
feature? In that case no, I haven't implemented it yet.

If you see your slaves disappearing (and then reconnecting again every couple
of hours), that may indicate an intervening NAT box which has dropped your
table entry. If the buildslave realizes it cannot get to the master, it will
attempt to reconnect, but NAT failures can result in connections which are
lost very quietly. If this happens, try creating the bot with --keepalive=600
(10 minutes) or so. You need a value that's just under the NAT's internal
timeout value.

Let me know if that helps or if there's still an issue.

thanks,
 -Brian