[Box Backup] Troubleshooting "Connection TLSWriteFailed 7/33" on OS X server/client setup

Tobias Balle-Petersen boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:49:18 +0200


Hello.

bbackupd is running on a OS X server with an energy setting of never sleep.

Tobias



Ben Summers wrote:
>
> I don't think you've answered my question about whether the Mac OS X 
> machine running bbackupd ever sleeps. If it does, I think that's your 
> answer. If it goes to sleep while connected to the server, the 
> connection will time out. KeepAlive won't help as the CPU is not 
> running the code.
>
> Ben
>
>
> On 8 Aug 2006, at 10:03, Tobias Balle-Petersen wrote:
>
>> Hello...
>>
>> The "Connection TLSReadFailed"only happens from time to time, so I 
>> would have to log tcpdump and wait for the error to happen. What 
>> parameters should I use for tcpdump?
>>
>> Maybe I should change the KeepAliveTime to 10 for testing purposes?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> Chris Wilson wrote:
>>> Hi Tobias,
>>>
>>>> Yes I have enabled Keep alive on the clients. My config says: 
>>>> KeepAliveTime = 600
>>>>
>>>> I used to have 60, but changed to 600 to see if it made a 
>>>> difference. It did not.
>>>
>>> Can you check that keepalives are actually working? Run tcpdump on 
>>> one of the machines to watch the traffic between the two, and make 
>>> sure that there is actually some traffic each way every 60 seconds 
>>> in the period between "Receiving stream, size uncertain" and 
>>> "Connection TLSReadFailed". If you're not sure, you can email the 
>>> tcpdump output to me.
>>>
>>> Ben and Nick, I was under the impression that keepalives involved a 
>>> command request by the client, so they should show up in the 
>>> extended log? I don't see any evidence of that here.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Chris.
>>
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