[tahoe-dev] IP address changed, server now shows as offline

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Daira Hopwood
<davidsarah at leastauthority.com> wrote:
>
> foolscap sends periodic keepalive messages; an address change should cause
> this to fail and the connection to be renegotiated. I don't know the details
> well enough to tell why this may not have worked.

Foolscap backs-off on the rate of reconnect attempts, when its
attempts to reconnect to a peer fail repeatedly. It is likely that if
Pierre had left the tahoe-lafs processes alone, that after an hour or
so foolscap would have tried to reconnect and this time it would have
succeeded.

Regards,

Zooko