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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>I’m trying to get dynamic configuration to work in Spread
and I’ve run into some quirky behavior. The symptom is that if I have a single
host listed in the configuration file, then add a new host, issue the reload
command using spmonitor, and start Spread on the new host, the first host does
not see any messages from the second host. If I then restart Spread on the
first host, everything starts working properly.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>My suspicion (without looking at the code) is that Spread doesn’t
listen on the multicast address (I’m using 239.255.0.1) if there is only a
single entry in the config file. However, after the reload, it *<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>should</span></b>* start listening on that address,
since there are now two entries. If it doesn’t, then it can’t communicate with
the other host unless the daemon is restarted.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>To test this theory, I added a dummy entry to the original
config file, so I’m now going from 2 to 3 daemons instead of from 1 to 2. The
reconfiguration works flawlessly now. Is this just a coincidence, or is my
suspicion correct? Is this a bug in Spread or is it expected behavior?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>Mike<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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