From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-09-10T06:42:17+09:00
Subject: Re: check if server is alive in drb

On Aug 28, 2007, at 01:15, Mr_Tibs wrote:
> Is there any elegant method for checking if a drb server is still
> alive from the client side?
>
> My server notifies my client when it finished a job through the
> observer method. However, it is possible that the server dies (or the
> network connection gets broken), and I need to detect this. I
> implemented a thread which continously "pings" (calls a simple
> remote_obj.ping) and rescues any exceptions in this method call. Is
> there a better solution out there?

Nope.

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