[Linux-cluster] two fencing problems

[Greg Forte]

Eric Kerin wrote:
> But mainly, check that the names you use in the clusternode name
> attributes are resolvable on both nodes, and they resolve to the same IP
> address on both nodes.

They do resolve, and to the same IP address.  Interestingly, if I stop 
fenced on the "good" node and run it manually as 'fenced -D' to monitor 
the debugging output, and then run 'fence_node hostname', no activity 
shows up - but if I do my simulated failure on the "bad" node (drop the 
interface), then it starts spewing debugging output (though the fencing 
fails for some other unknown reason ... but killing that and restarting 
fenced properly fixes it).

I kind of give up at this point - fencing now works, and I can always 
force a node by dropping its interface (or yanking the network cable) - 
it's dirty, but it works.

-g

Greg Forte
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