[Swift-devel] Re: Worker connection

[Jonathan Monette]

Right now I am using "internalHostname".  I was just wondering if an 
should this be changed since I am always changing this entry depending 
if I am on login1 or login2?

On 8/13/10 11:35 AM, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 11:30 -0500, Jonathan Monette wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>       How does the worker decide what connection to connect to?  Right
>> now what I think it does is it runs ifconfig and greps the inet address
>> and then test each of these connections.  Is this correct?  When I am
>> running on PADS it seems that the worker always chooses the wrong
>> connection to the service.  It seems to choose the UBS0 connection where
>> the correct connection is the ib0 connection.  Is there a way that maybe
>> the worker can be fixed to choose a better connection or the correct
>> connection?  This seems to be only happening on PADS.
>>
>>      
> That was temporary. Initially it would use the same address as the url
> in sites.xml. Then I added the "try all interfaces" thing, but in some
> cases the connect on certain wrong addresses does not fail quickly
> enough and has to timeout instead, which usually takes a few minutes. So
> that got disabled and only the frist address is used now (unless
> overridden - see below).
>
> You can say<profile namespace="globus"
> key="internalHostname">x.y.z.w</profile>  in sites.xml
>
> Mihael
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-- 
Jon

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