No physical address for X; dropping message ------------------------------------------- Key: JGRP-1814 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JGRP-1814 Project: JGroups Issue Type: Enhancement Reporter: Bela Ban Assignee: Bela Ban Fix For: 3.5 When we have view \{A,B\} and B leaves, then the following happens in UNICAST3: * B sends a LEAVE-REQ to A * A sends a LEAVE-RSP to B * Because the LEAVE-RSP is reliable, A keeps sending the LEAVE-RSP to B until it receives an ACK for the LEAVE-RSP * However, when B receives the LEAVE-RSP, it marks its connection to be acked, which means that when the next retransmission kicks in, an ACK for the LEAVE-RSP will be sent back to A * Before this happens, B leaves: the ACK is never sent to A * A keeps resending the LEAVE-RSP until {{max_retransmit_time}} (default=60s) elapses and the connection is closed. However, the connection is only closed after another 60s (default for {{conn_close_timeout}}). * Because the reaper removes all entries of {{logical_addr_cache}} before that happens, we're seeing the above warnings SOLUTION: # Send LEAVE-RSP unreliable. This bypasses UNICAST3 altogether. The leaver won't block forever if the LEAVE-RSP message is dropped, but only for 3 x {{GMS.leave_timeout}} ms # Also add a MBR_LEFT event which is sent up and down the stack by GMS when a member left *gracefully*. This allows UNICAST3 to close the connection to a given member *immediately*, stopping unneeded retransmissions to members which left.