[836] in Zephyr_Bugs
Re: multiple servers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Thu Dec 19 14:38:18 1996
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 14:37:57 -0500
To: George Keith <gkeith@bbn.com>
Cc: zephyr-bugs@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: "[835] in Zephyr_Bugs"
All servers in a realm must be talking to each other, with N^2 links.
What you have right now is a situation where not all the servers are
talking to each other. This means that data is not being successfully
exchanged between mydept and otherdept[123].
To fix the problem, you need to have all four machines in the
server.list file on all four servers (hense the N^2 problem). You may
start zhm with any subset of servers. So, for example, you can use
"mydept" and "otherdept1" in your department, "otherdept1" and
"otherdept2" in deptartment 1, etc. This will try to balance the load
somewhat.
A better solution, if various departments are located across long,
slow links, is to use Zephyr 2.1 with the cross-realm code, and have
the departments actually be realms themselves, and use cross-realm
zephyr to communicate between them. This would reduce the load on the
long-haul networks.
So, the short answer is you need to bother everyone in each department
to make sure that each department has all the department zephyr
servers loaded.
I hope this helps.
-derek
