Re: N-Way Multi-Master when one server down

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Chris G. Sellers wrote:
> I'm noticing that with N-Way Multi-master servers, if one server is
> down or crashed, the updates don't always get to this server once it's
> back up.  (e..g updates are not queued and when the connection re-
> establishes it does not flush out that queue)

Then something is broken.

> Do I understand this to be correct?  Can you adjust the retry time
> settings to help mitigate this?

Retry settings should make no difference. When a downed server comes back up, 
it does a refresh operation with the other server to bring itself up to date. 
You should post your configs here again.
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