[Buildbot-devel] Re: NAT issues fixed?

[Justin Mason]

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Brian Warner writes:
> > 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.

no, that's a separate one ;)

> 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`0
> (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.

To be honest, I wasn't the one runnign the slaves -- that was Sidney
Markowitz, who I think is on this list too.  cc'd anyway just
in case ;)

- --j.
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