[Linux-ha-dev] Occasionally heartbeat doesn't start...

[Alan Robertson]

Hi,

I've been investigating an HA configuration for a customer.  One time in 
testing heartbeat didn't start, because rpcbind had stolen its reserved 
port.  Restarting rpcbind made it choose a different random port.  This 
is definitely an interesting problem - even if it doesn't happen very often.

The best solution to this, AFAIK is to make a file 
/etc/portreserve/heartbeat with this one line in it:
694/udp

and then add portrelease heartbeat to the init script.

Thoughts?

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